Celebrations are being held to mark the Sandymount Hotel’s 70th anniversary
John Loughran and his son Gerard, owners of the Sandymount Hotel. Photo: Gerry Mooney
Anyone familiar with Dublin’s Aviva Stadium – we once just called it Lansdowne Road – will have noticed the prominence of the nearby Sandymount Hotel. This comprises a terrace of fine Victorian houses occupying virtually all one side of the adjacent Herbert Road.
The hotel complex, whose 70th anniversary will be marked today, forms part of what used to be my family home. The takeover seemed like a Chekhov play: we were remnants of an older Ireland, stuck in a past that was fading, while a new, entrepreneurial spirit was rising, embodied in the hotel’s expanding agenda of buying each residential home on the road.
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