We started the business debt-free and we are still debt-free. We’ll take all the cash we generate and put it back into the business
David Collins and his business partner, David Byrne, launched Great National Hotels and Resorts in the teeth of the last recession. Almost a decade on, they’re not just surviving, but thriving
CV: David Collins
Role: co-founder of Great National Hotels and Resorts
Age:53
Family: married with three children
Lives: Lahinch, Co Clare
Hobbies: surfing
Currently reading: Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes
No clients. No funding. No staff. And it was 2010, when the tourism industry was on its knees in the middle of the economic crisis. That was the moment when David Collins and David Byrne decided to launch a completely new hotel ...
