Brennan brothers put Kerry hotels on market: ‘It’s time for new energy’

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'This is a very, very happy day for ourselves.'

, Francis Brennan said the pandemic allowed him to have “a fantastic time” because he had time to himself for the first time in his life.“He has Dromquinna [Manor] and that’ll keep him going to no end, I have loads of other things – I won’t be idle.”Pat Brennan said the refurbishments of both of the Kenmare hotels were part of the eventual selling process.

“In that process of renovating the whole Park Hotel, The Lansdowne went into receivership, we bought it, and we embarked on that project. “Very often unfortunately for family hotels they sell, and they come into trouble at the bottom of a cycle when they're in bad repair, our is actually the direct opposite – this is a very, very happy day for ourselves.”Pat Brennan said the timing feels correct to sell the hotels now because of a need for ‘fresh energy.’

“We've done that fantastically for the last 40 years, but as Francis said, COVID taught us an awful lot of lessons.“Hotels are 24-hour businesses, and after 40-odd years looking after people and being at the front of the hotel, we just think it's time to step back and let other people who are new energy come in and take them over.”Francis said despite issues with the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the 2008 recession, tourism in Ireland “is very buoyant.

 

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