{"id":171620,"date":"2025-11-09T15:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171620\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:47:10","slug":"talbot-hotels-chief-eyes-former-ipas-centres-in-nationwide-expansion-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171620\/","title":{"rendered":"Talbot hotels chief eyes former Ipas centres in nationwide expansion push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018People have made lots of money from these hotels. But when they get them back, they know refurb costs will be huge and they don\u2019t have the appetite,\u2019 Talbot MD Philip Gavin said\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'A galloping mare of a hotel.' Talbot Collection has bought the Absolute Hotel in Limerick City for \u20ac18m\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8e9358d2-33e3-4803-86f4-71002c29af83.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;A galloping mare of a hotel.&#8217; Talbot Collection has bought the Absolute Hotel in Limerick City for \u20ac18m<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Talbot Collection hotel group plans to continue its expansion and buy more hotels and is eyeing up former hotel properties coming to the end of direct provision contracts with the State as it looks to continue a nationwide expansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Wexford-headquartered group confirmed last week that it is buying its seventh hotel, the 99-bedroom Absolute Hotel in Limerick city for \u20ac18m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018People have made lots of money from these hotels. But when they get them back, they know refurb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,33201,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-171620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115520526598164136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}