The hotel industry offers a perfect illustration of Ireland’s boom - and then bust. With many controlled by Nama, or paying off huge mortgages, smaller tourist numbers and Irish customers wanting ever better deals, how are today’s hoteliers coping? Patrick Freyne and Rosita Boland report





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