Full coverage: Hospitality

Craft Cocktails, the bottled cocktail lockdown hit, is just one aspect of Dave Mulligan's ambition to change the way the Irish drink. He talks to Alison Cowzer about the changes coming to the hospitality industry, how to retain staff during a national shortage and his vision for Irish moonshine.

As he transitions from managing director to chairman of Hastings Hotels, Howard Hastings reflects about steering the business through the pandemic, the future of hospitality and the lessons he learned from his father.

After retrenching from Germany at a profit in recent years, Galway-born brothers Brian and Luke Comer have just bought a high-profile hotel in Hamburg. Covid-19 has created the type of opportunity their fortune is based on.

UK investment firm Attestor Capital is closing in on most of the hospitality portfolio put on the market by the Smith family.

The Pettitt family controls six supermarkets, six hotels and a scattering of other business interests. Diversification left them well placed when Covid-19 arrived. But they still managed to find significant cost savings during the pandemic.

The Northern Irish group behind Belfast's Merchant Hotel is bringing its fashionable Bullitt brand to the former Riverdance HQ in Dublin. But its plans for the €30m hotel development have allegedly been jeopardised by a row with a local landlord.

Low interest rates and wealthy investors are driving a boom in pub prices. Will there still be room for the little guy?

Dunmore has acquired the Wellington in Dublin 4, adding to a venue in Dún Laoghaire. One of its backers outlines the rationale for the deal and its strategy for building a group.

Ciara Crossan set up WeddingDates at the start of the last Irish economic crash and has spent the last 18 months battling the latest crisis. Covid has set her company back five years, but it has also given her time to think about what to do next.

Luna in Dublin was once named the best restaurant in Ireland. Now the creative force behind it has been restricted as a director while a liquidator continues to investigate what happened.