In March 2024, the Dean Hotel group, once part of Paddy McKillen Jr’s Press Up hospitality empire, changed hands. In stepped US investment firm Elliott Management and London-based investor Lifestyle Hospitality Capital. The deal included a series of hotels across Dublin, Cork, and Galway, as well as the Glasson Lakehouse near Athlone in Westmeath. It valued the portfolio at around €355 million and demonstrated international-investor interest in one of the country’s fastest-growing hospitality brands. While its new 80 per cent owners have significant plans to invest in Ireland, the group has also set its sights on overseas markets to bring…

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