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'Love' video promotes Dublin

A great Dublin moment can mean completely different things to different people.

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A new Fáilte Ireland video, which was released for St Valentine’s Day, has already clocked up nearly 230,000 views across all social media channels and has now been awarded ‘Ad of the week’ by Adworld.

The 'This City’s Got Love' video captures a multitude of great Dublin moments and is the message from the rousing and arresting soundtrack that accompanies the footage – a track especially commissioned by Fáilte Ireland, from rising Dublin-based electro–pop duo, Le Boom.

Daragh Anglim, Head of Marketing with Fáilte Ireland, commented:

Outage hits city lunch trade

Hotels, restaurans and pubs in Dublin city centre lost their lunch trade yesterday following a power outage.

The e Restaurants Association of Ireland suggested food businesses in the area lost between €1,000 and €2,500 in the period.

RAI ceo Adrian Cummins complimented the ESB and the speed at which it returned the connection, but added the fact there was no warning was not an ideal outcome for traders.

A number of traders along St Stephen’s Green including the Shelbourne Hotel and O’Donoghue’s pub on Merrion Row were also affected by the outage.

Tifco paid €45.7m for Travelodges

The TIFCO hotel group paid €45.7m for the purchase of the 12-hotel Travelodge business in Ireland, the 'Irish Independent' reports to-day.

That is according to accounts for TIFCO's holding company Halstonville Ltd, which also confirm that the group also paid €13.3m for the Parliament hotel and the adjacent Fashion House building in Temple Bar in Dublin in July 2016.

The group has since secured planning permission for a 77-bedroom extension to the hotel. The €45.7m paid for the Travelodge business on December 1 2016 doubled the money Richard O'Sullivan and Seamus McGowan paid for Travelodge's Irish business in 2004 in a €22.5m deal.

Galgorm to host World Spa Awards

Galgorm Resort & Spa has been named 'Global Spa of the Year 2017' at the World Luxury Hotel Awards held in St. Moritz in Switzerland.

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The Co. Antrim Resort beat off international competition to be recognized by this global organization for its world class facilities and service excellence provided to guests.

The win put the Resort on the radar of the Awards organizational committee, who after al site visit to Northern Ireland at the end of 2017, announced that Galgorm Resort & Spa had been selected as its host property for the 2018 World Luxury Spa & Restaurant Awards.

Ryanair adds Shannon flights

Ryanair has added two new routes and increased frequency on an existing service between Shannon Airport and the UK.

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The airline has put on sale its new three times weekly (Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays) Liverpool service from May 19 and a twice weekly (Mondays and Thursdays) Bristol service from May 17.

Ryanair has also added Tuesdays and Wednesdays to its Manchester service from Shannon, which will now run six days a week.

The two new services bring to 17 the number of destinations that will be served by Ryanair from Shannon this year.