now making the choice to either completely sell or rebrand entirely based on the requirement of the majority of travellers.
The Jurys Inn name will disappear as part of a rebrand by its owners, the Fattal Hotel Group, with all 35 Jurys Inn hotels across Ireland and Britain to become Leonardo hotels this autumn.
The entire Jurys Inn portfolio was acquired by the group, which is owned by Israeli billionaire David Fattal, in 2017. It already has 15 Leonardo-branded hotels in the UK and 145 worldwide and is set to embark on an expansion of the chain.
Property developers lodged plans for almost 15,000 homes under the fast-track planning process in the first two weeks of April as they rushed to meet the final deadline for the scheme.
An Bord Pleanála received a record 36 planning applications in two weeks under the Strategic Housing Development process, which comes to an end on Tuesday.
While the scheme had closed for new applications in February, developers who had already started discussions with the planning authority for their respective developments were given an extension until April 19th.
Key projects in the Government’s €165 billion National Development Plan (NDP) are at risk of being scrapped or delayed if construction costs continue to soar, according to the Business Post.
A review of capital projects in the pipeline in areas such as housing, transport, health and education was completed last week by officials in the Department of Public Expenditure.
It found weaker than usual levels of interest among construction firms for new public works contracts, with inflationary pressures making many projects with fixed-pricing contracts unattractive or unviable.
