iNua Honours Managers

The iNua Hotel Collection hosted its annual iNua Group Manager Awards ceremony in the Radisson Blu, Athlone. Over 130 managers from the group’s 15 hotels came to celebrate a year of exceptional achievements.

Pictured are Paul Fitzgerald - CEO Cliste Hospitality; Aoife Darcy - Financial Controller, Radisson Blu, Limerick; Gillian Deedigan - Deputy General Manager, Radisson Blu, Limerick; Brian Harrington - General Manager, Radisson Blu, Limerick; Suzanne O’Dwyer - Director of Sales, Radisson Blu, Limerick; Gabriella Scierra - M&E Operations Manager, Radisson Blu, Limerick; Sean O’Driscoll – CEO, iNUA Hotel Collection; Ashlynn Sweeney - People & Culture Manager, Radisson Blu, Limerick; Angela McCabe - Wedding Manager, Radisson Blu, Limerick.

Sean O’Driscoll, CEO, spoke about The iNua Hotel Collection celebrating its 10th anniversary as a hospitality group, growing from two hotels in 2014 to eighteen hotels and hospitality businesses today, employing 1,740 people. He spoke about the challenges in the hospitality sector over the last twelve months and praised the strength and great character of the leadership teams in each hotel in dealing with these challenges. He also highlighted some of the group’s achievements including achieving the Great Places to Work accreditation for a third year and receiving silver accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity.

Mr. O’Driscoll gave a warm welcome to the managers from the new voco hotel in Belfast, which was launched in July of this year, and the team from The Keadeen Hotel in Newbridge, which joined The iNua Hotel Collection in September 2024.

The awards ceremony honoured eleven managers for exceptional performance in their areas of expertise, and the hotel of the year was also announced at the ceremony. The hotel of the year is selected from 19 performance criteria relating to guest experience, colleague satisfaction and business performance.

This year, The iNua Hotel Collection Hotel of the Year is the Radisson Blu, Hotel & Spa in Limerick. General Manager at Radisson Blu, Limerick, Brian Harrington paid tribute to his long serving management team for their dedication and commitment to quality in everything they do and said the award means a great deal to the team.

The individual award winners were Daniel Cross, General Manager at Radisson Blu Hotel, Sligo, who was named overall Manager of the Year. Other winners included Denise Meenaghan of Radisson Blu Hotel, Sligo, who was named Wedding Manager of the Year. This year Denise celebrated hosting her 1,000th wedding at the Radisson Blu, Sligo.

Caroline Walsh of The Tullamore Court Hotel was named Food & Beverage Manager of the Year and Suzanne O’Dwyer of Radisson Blu Hotel, Limerick, was named Sales Manager of the Year. Shantal Thomas of Radisson Blu Hotel, Limerick, was named Accommodation Manager of the Year, and Anne Marie Jarvis of The Springfield Hotel in Leixlip was named Rooms Division Manager of the Year.

Kamila Lipnicka of voco Hotel Belfast was named Finance Leader of the Year, while Scott Kapitan of the five star Muckross Park Hotel in Killarney was named Executive Chef of the Year. Chris Lally of Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone, was named People & Culture Leader of the Year, and Aideen O’Farrell of The Gateway Hotel, Dundalk, was named Sustainability Leader of the Year. Kasia Stec of Radisson Blu Hotel, Cork, was the winner of the Service Excellence Award.