Hotel got paid €68m to house refugees

27% surge on figure for 2023

- GORDON DEEGAN

THE owner of the country’s largest hotel, Citywest, received over €1.3 million on average per week in 2024 for accommodating Ukrainians and International Protection applicants.

New figures show that the €68.27m paid out to Cape Wrath UC, which is owned by investment group Tetrarch Capital and runs the 764-bed Citywest hotel and convention centre in Saggart, Co Dublin, is a 27% increase on the €53.7m paid out to the hotel firm in 2023.