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New display for 'Book of Kells'

The Book of Kells is getting a setting worthy of its status as a world-renowned cultural artefact and Ireland’s best known treasure. Book of Kells 2

For decades the book, visited by some 500,000 people a year, was on display in a glass case in the old library at Trinity College Dublin. However, neither the light nor the location were regarded as optimal for a ninth century manuscript.

From this week the book is being displayed in a bespoke glass case in the college’s treasury room which will be in darkness but for a spotlight on the book.

The case will allow for every page to be displayed on a rotating basis. This will include some of its most ornate pages which have not been on public display for many decades because of their sensitivity to light.

Nine restaurant workers test C19 positive

The owners of a Co Donegal restaurant have pleaded with other businesses to take Covid seriously after nine members of staff tested positive for the disease. burritdoloco

Mexican restaurant Buritto Loco closed its doors last Thursday as a precaution after a relative of a staff member tested positive.

Most of the staff at the restaurant on Letterkenny's Port Road showed mild or no symptoms at all.

But the owners have now confirmed that at present nine employees have tested positive.

PREM extends debt facility

PREM Group, has renegotiated a €38m debt facility with Swedish lender Proventus. jimurphy0220

The facility, which was due at the end of August, has been extended out until 2022. PREM Group entered into the €38m debt facility in 2015, which it used to purchase several significant freehold assets, including Tulfarris Hotel and Golf Resort in Co Wicklow.

Jim Murphy, chief executive of PREM Group, said the renegotiation had been identified as crucial for the business.

Jackson Court targets students

The hotel at the Copper Face Jacks nightclub, the Jackson Court Hotel, is offering accommodation for students at €40 per person per night.This follows a simiar move by the coppers0720

Radisson Blu hotel in Stillorgan.

While the nightclub is still closed to due to coronavirus restrictions, the hotel is still is operation and is now offering student deals for the coming academic year.

With thousands of students now facing only a couple of days of on campus lectures due to blended learning, many will choose to commute to college or stay overnight in a hotel as it works out cheaper than paying rent.

O'Flynn plans Dublin hotel

The O'Flynn Group has lodged plans to construct a 15 storey hotel and 1,137 residential units in Dublin set to cost €625m. Oflynn app

In the 10-year permission sought at Walkinstown Avenue in west Dublin by the Cork builder, 12 of the 13 apartment blocks are to range from four to 10 storeys in height.

The mixed-use 'Southwest Gate Dublin 12' development is to also include a 148-bedroomed, 15-storey hotel across the 17-acre site to be developed along the Naas Road. The plan is the largest ever devised for the capital by the O'Flynn Group and planning documentation lodged with Dublin City Council states that the anticipated population from the development will be 2,584.