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KILLARNEY’S Gleneagle Group won four gold medals at the prestigious Irish Accommodation Service Awards ceremony which took place in Cavan.
The Gleneagle Hotel, The Brehon, the Travel Inn in Fossa and the Maritime Hotel in Bantry were all awarded a gold for their immaculate standards in housekeeping and accommodation services.
Each hotel was inspected by a member of the Irish Accommodation Services Institute adjudication panel in the months leading up to the awards ceremony and the excitement reached fever pitch when all four hotels were named as finalists.
Thy were represented by their accommodation managers at a swish gala banquet in the Slieve Russell Hotel in Cavan at the weekend.
Noreen O’Gorman, executive accommodation manager for the Gleneagle Group, remarked: “We are thrilled to have won four gold medals.”
She added: “Our guests expect and deserve the highest standards of cleanliness and we work very hard every day to ensure that this is what they get. To be applauded for this is a fabulous bonus.”
She said the Travel Inn exceeded expectations by being ranked in the top three hotels in the country and special praise was reserved for accommodation manager Margaret O’Mahony.
The Irish Accommodation Services Institute is a national body representing the professional interests of the accommodation industry throughout Ireland. Its primary role is to promote best practice standards across the accommodation field.
It also provides a forum to meet and network with other professionals in this particular field of work.
