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Mon 02 Feb 2010Inside the empty world of Ireland's zombie hotels

Hundreds of rooms but nobody staying, our vast hotels have to serve their time as the living dead before investors get their tax break, writes ANN MARIE HOURIHANE

ZOMBIE HOTELS. Zombie hotels. It just seems too good to be true. What next – the zombie BB? Actually, we’ve all stayed in the zombie BB in our time. But zombie hotels are bigger than zombie BBs. Too big to fail. Whoah, missus.

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