Shannon Oaks Hotel Portumna Destroyed

cson

Huge fire there atm.

There'll be 30 jobs gone there I'd say, massive blow for the town.

biko

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0907/portumna.html

One of the West of Ireland's best known hotels has been extensively damaged by fire.
80 guests and staff were forced to leave the Shannon Oaks Hotel in Portumna, Co Galway, when the blaze broke out shortly after lunchtime.
Fire-fighters from counties Galway and Tipperary fought to get the blaze under control.

A management spokesman said the hotel would remain closed for sometime, but that there was no threat to the 60 jobs.
He said the damage was mainly confined to the kitchen area where the fire broke out.

cson

Yeah I saw that about the jobs not being under threat, all the same that's 60 people out of work until it's rebuilt. It was recently taken over by the Maldron Group I believe.

CrowdedHouse

This is a pity, going by the pics it looks pretty bad.

You'd have to be concerned about its future

I regularly stop in there for lunch.

magentas

Hopefully they'll be up and running again soon enough and the staff back to work.