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A FIVE-STAR RESORT owned by Limerick multi-millionaire JP McManus has announced plans to go on a major recruitment drive.
Adare Manor hotel and golf resort will hire 300 new employees over the coming months. There are currently 50 people on the payroll.
The luxury resort is looking for new staff to work in both senior management roles and operational jobs like receptionists, laundry assistants and waiting staff.
Appointments to leadership roles will be filled by early May, while other staff members will start work from the beginning of July.
The property is owned by Limerick businessman and racehorse owner JP McManus, who bought the hotel three years ago for a reported €40 million.
According to its most recent accounts, the property reported a loss of more than €88,000 for the financial year that ended 31 December 2015.
Over the past 12 months, Adare Manor has been undergoing a major refurbishment, which is slated for completion by the end of this year.
Redevelopment
As well as giving the hotel’s exterior a makeover, the renovation will see 40 new rooms come on stream. This will bring the total number of bedrooms to 104.
There will also be a new ballroom that can accommodate up to 350 guests. Other additions include a new spa, swimming pool, boardroom and cinema. The surrounding 800 acres of gardens and walking trails will be redeveloped as well.
Acclaimed golf course designer Tom Fazio has been hired to redesign the property’s golf course, which will open in September.
He has designed a number of golf courses across North and South America and refurbished the Waterville Golf Links in Co Kerry in 2006.
After its redevelopment, Adare Manor will host the JP McManus Invitational Pro-Am charity golf event in 2020.
The star-studded event, hosted by McManus, was last staged in 2010 and has raised over €100 million for charities in the mid-west of Ireland.
“A huge amount of care and attention has been taken to ensure that the renovations honour the building’s architectural heritage,” said Adare Manor chief executive Colm Hannon.
He estimated that when the refurbishment is complete, the hotel will welcome around 60,000 visitors every year.
Written by Conor McMahon and posted on Fora.ie
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Expect plenty more revelations.
ABP is a common name popping up a lot
Looking forward to the rest of the DNeigh results as they come in…
Just hearing some horses that died in Aintree were sold as beef shocking
I’m doing a sub-four -minute mile. Shergar DNA
Monaghan just up the road from me. Usually were Very good NEIGHbours until now.
I hope all these products with horse meat in them aren’t just being thrown away. There is nothing wrong with horse meat the only problem with the whole thing is that they didn’t tell us that the products contain horse meat. There are plenty of starving people that would gladly take horse meat burgers.
Stupid question…doesn’t horse cost more than cows?
Apparently not
I doubt it’s the 100% healthy ones that are ending up in the slaughterhouse.
We’re not eating racing stallions.
the price per kilo of beef paid to the farmer is 4.00- 4.50 per kilo carcass weight …….. I was talking to a farmer the other day and he told me that they just get paid for the carcass…they do not get paid for the organs or the hide (leather) ….
the price of horsemeat is .90 per kilo………..
The farmer was telling me that in Ireland that because of the new regulations being brought in with regard to horse ownership that certain people who own a lot of horses have been selling them to knackers (the correct term i.e. buyers of worn-out or unwanted horses ).
He maintained that you can buy anything from five to ten horses for the price of a cow and that in some cases people who can no longer afford to keep horses are giving them away !
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