Five key takeaways from the Dalata half-year results

Ireland’s largest hotel group reported a big loss for the first six months of 2021 but it was better than this time last year and demand for rooms has been steadily increasing

Pat McCann, the outgoing chief executive of Dalata Group, said demand from the domestic leisure market had increased since hotels fully reopened in May in Britain and a month later in Ireland. Picture: Maxwells

As the country looks forward to a further – and potentially final – easing of Covid-19 restrictions next month, the prospects for Dalata, Ireland’s largest hotel group, are looking up.

This morning’s results for the first six months of 2021 reflect the extremely difficult period the group has had to overcome, however. Here are five things we learned.

1. The hotel group lost money over the period – but not as much as it did ...