{"id":73614,"date":"2025-09-19T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73614\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T15:29:07","slug":"entrepreneur-who-wants-to-create-irelands-most-sustainable-hotel-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/73614\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur who wants to create Ireland\u2019s most sustainable hotel \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serial entrepreneur Bryan Meehan<\/a> took ownership of the five-star Park Hotel in Kenmare two years ago, and is preparing to take the next steps to making it Ireland\u2019s first net zero hotel while building a new spa that\u2019s in touch with nature. Ciar\u00e1n Hancock visited the property to hear all about Meehan\u2019s plans. <\/p>\n

A major rift has emerged between the Irish Farmers Journal<\/a> and the board of its publisher, the Agricultural Trust, which could lead to the exit of the newspaper\u2019s editor. Colin Gleeson has the details. <\/p>\n

In our Big Read, Joe Brennan, Martin Wall and Arthur Beesley detail how DAA chief executive Kenny Jacobs<\/a> ran out of runway at the State-owned airport operator. <\/p>\n

Large numbers of workers employed by public organisations on both sides of the Border but often working from home are in danger of falling foul of tax<\/a> rules that could cost them dearly, a conference has been told. Mark Hennessy reports. <\/p>\n

Ireland has a ticking time bomb and its out ageing population<\/a>. There could be lessons to be learned from Japan, writes our Economics Correspondent Eoin Burke-Kennedy.<\/p>\n

Aer Lingus CEO Lynne Embleton is The Irish Times Businessperson of the Month for August, an award run in association with Bank of Ireland. <\/p>\n

In Smart Money,<\/a> Cliff Taylor looks at the likely shape of the tax package in Budget 2026 and what it means for your pocket. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances sign up to On the Money<\/a>, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which issues every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.<\/p>\n

In our Work feature, Margaret Ward looks at how workplaces must adapt to the needs of employees who are single parents by choice<\/a> through IVF. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serial entrepreneur Bryan Meehan took ownership of the five-star Park Hotel in Kenmare two years ago, and is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2442,9,10,10471,959,38997,18,13,14,6,19,17,50106,40609,11,12,15,16,5,50407,7,8,1737],"class_list":{"0":"post-73614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-aer-lingus","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-budget","12":"tag-business-today","13":"tag-daa","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-featured-news","16":"tag-featurednews","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-irish-farmers-journal","21":"tag-kenny-jacobs","22":"tag-latest-news","23":"tag-latestnews","24":"tag-main-news","25":"tag-mainnews","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-park-hotel-kenmare","28":"tag-top-stories","29":"tag-topstories","30":"tag-working-from-home"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73614","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=73614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}