Market capitalisation: £220 million

Status: public limited company, listed on Irish stock exchange in 1986; obtained full London listing in 1995

Room numbers: 2,863 bedrooms in Ireland and the UK; the group has nine hotels and eight inns in 11 cities

Employment: 1,650 people

Turnover: £71.4 million for the year to the end of April 1998; pre-tax profits during that period were £19.5 million

Flagship: Jurys, Ballsbridge, a favourite of patrons of nearby Lansdowne Road; famed for its Irish cabaret and its Coffee Dock, open 23 hours a day, six days a week and the final port of call of many early-morning revellers

Others: The Towers, Dublin; Jurys Hotels in Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Glasgow, Bristol, Cardiff, and Kensington; Jurys Inns in Christchurch and at the Custom House in Dublin and in Galway, Cork, Limerick, Edinburgh, Belfast, London and Manchester (under construction)