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John Brennan does not expect to reopen the  Park Hotel in Kenmare, Co Kerry until May or June due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.

“I don’t expect we’ll be able to open before June 1st,” Mr Brennan told The Irish Times, adding that it could be May 1st in a best-case scenario.

Mr Brennan does not expect the hospitality sector will be allowed reopen before St Patrick’s Day, and probably not until after the Easter holiday period in April has passed, to prevent a surge in infections as happened last month as restrictions were lifted for Christmas.

In addition, Mr Brennan said it would then be a number of weeks before the Government moved the country down from the current Level 5 to Level 2 restrictions, which would allow for inter-county travel.

“It’s not commercially viable to reopen without inter-county business,” he said. “Reopening a hotel is an expensive business. You need advance reservations and there are a lot of staff costs before you turn a euro. We get a lot of people visiting from Cork, Limerick and Dublin.”

Mr Justice David Barniville said he “strongly encouraged” those involved to consider resolving the dispute through mediation.

He made the remarks when adjourning an application to have a case over the matter admitted to the fast-track Commercial Court.

Dublin hotelier and publican Martin Keane, and three of his companies – Slatterys, Traditional Iveagh Market and Iveagh Market Hotels – are suing Arthur Edward Rory Guinness ,otherwise Arthur Rory Edward Iveagh, whose ancestor, the First Earl of Iveagh, built the market in the Liberties more than 100 years ago.

 

Former Failte Ireland executive and now management consultant Mary Hall is part of a team which will deliver programmes at the new Professional Trraining Centre. 

Mary has has wide-ranging experience in the field of Management and Supervisory Development. Hallmark Training recognizes that in the past few difficult years discretionary spending has resulted in less provision of training for staff. Now, the current environment and sophistication of guests require more professional staff if organizational growth and success are to be achieved. Her distinguished career includes roles in accommodation management, many years as a specialist trainer with CERT and Fáilte Ireland, roles in management development with Cornell University and consultancy project overseas. 

  Professional Training Centre  officially launched two new programmes in Communications and Corporate Executive & Management training.

In response to Bord Bia's newly-published "Export Performance and Prospects 2020/21" report, Drinks Ireland, has released a 10-point drinks industry outlook for 2021.

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