{"id":77142,"date":"2025-09-21T14:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/77142\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:43:14","slug":"from-dublin-to-dubai-for-dennis-mcgettigan-hospitality-is-part-of-the-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/77142\/","title":{"rendered":"From Dublin to Dubai \u2013 for Dennis McGettigan, hospitality is part of the DNA"},"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\">Having expanded the family\u2019s gastro-pub empire as far afield as the Middle East, businessman McGettigan returns to his first love \u2013 hoping to transform his country club hotel into something special\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dennis McGettigan at Nuremore Hotel &amp; Country Club. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/796efe66-d743-46eb-bbba-98b6d543d2df.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)\">Dennis McGettigan at Nuremore Hotel &amp; Country Club. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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)\">Dennis McGettigan strides through the half-finished corridors of the Nuremore Hotel and Country Club in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, dipping into four recently completed rooms to showcase the latest designs.<\/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 son of well-known hotelier Jim McGettigan, who amassed a hotel empire stretching from the former North Star in Dublin city to the five-star Bonnington in Dubai, is hoping to reopen the Nuremore by the middle of next month, partially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having expanded the family\u2019s gastro-pub empire as far afield as the Middle East, businessman McGettigan returns to his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[41023,21088,10472,160,976,18,117,19,56,17,24132,4574,1900,1265,3380],"class_list":{"0":"post-77142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-allied-irish-banks","9":"tag-bob-geldof","10":"tag-budget-2026","11":"tag-coronavirus","12":"tag-ed-sheeran","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-immigration","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-nama","19":"tag-patrick-odonovan","20":"tag-revenue-commissioners","21":"tag-sean-pollock","22":"tag-u2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77142","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=77142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}