A few days ago, the Irish Mirror ran a story about a €2,000 hotel room for St Patrick’s Day, perhaps unsurprisingly with the headline “Rip-off Ireland”.  A couple of days before that, in what some may think is unrelated, Dublin City Council refused permission for a new 300-bedroom hotel on Mount Street in Dublin 2.  This is not the only time the Council has done this. Indeed, already this month, the Council has turned down three proposals to build new hotels and it refused a proposed extension to a hotel on nearby Parliament Street, one that would have added 42…

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