CO TYRONE construction group McAleer and Rushe has confirmed it will design and build the GAA’s new hotel in Dublin.
The new four star Maldron Hotel will form part of a major investment by the GAA on a 14-acre site at Clonliffe College, close to Croke Park. The sporting organisation revealed it had acquired around 34-acres in Dumcondra last July. Some 12.8 acres will be dedicated to new pitches, a clubhouse and facilities, with 1.1 acres set aside for the hotel.
The remaining lands have been sold onto to the Hines development group. It’s understood that it will become a new housing development.
Cookstown-based McAleer and Rushe previously completed the 232-bed Croke Park Hotel back in 2005. The Doyle Collection, who leased the site from the GAA, contracted the Tyrone firm for the €30m project on the Jones Road next to the 82,000-seater stadium.
The Dalata Hotel Group, which has a long-standing relationship with McAleer and Rushe, has sign a long-term lease with the GAA for the new 200-bedroom hotel venture.
If planning approval is secured as expected by 2020, the hotel will be due to open in the second-half of 2023. The development will also feature a business centre with six meeting rooms, together with bar and restaurant facilities.
Group chief executive of McAleer & Rushe, Eamonn Laverty, confirmed yesterday that the Tyrone firm will be carrying out the design and construction. work.
“We are delighted to be working with the GAA, once again, on the design and build of a new hotel as part of an exciting project on the Clonliffe College site, part of the Croke Park campus.
“Having developed and implemented the design and build of the original Croke Park Hotel we know the great team the GAA has in place at Croke Park, and we look forward to renewing that partnership with them and with the Dalata Group who we work closely with on an on-going basis across a range of projects throughout Ireland and the UK."
