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RORY CARVILLE
PAUL GALLAGHER
EWAN PLENDERLEITH
NEW POSITION EXECUTIVE CHEF
NEW POSITION CHAIR OF THE IRISH TOURIST INDUSTRY CONFEDERATION (ITIC)
NEW POSITION CHAIRMAN OF THE COLLEGE OF FELLOWS OF THE IRISH HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE (IHI)
Paul Gallagher, General Manager of Buswells Hotel and former President of the Irish Hotels Federation, is the new Chair of the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation (ITIC). Speaking at the Confederation’s AGM on April 30, he said that if the Government was to realise its ambition of welcoming 10 million visitors spending 5bn annually by 2025, it had to adopt the correct strategy and do so with speed. “Tourism has demonstrated that it can deliver the jobs, and in parts of the country not reached by FDI,” he said. “Government must recognise that to realise the ambition, a significant tourism programme must be part of their capital expenditure plan for 2016 to 2020.”
Ewan Plenderleith, General Manager of the Herbert Park Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin has been elected as Chairman of the College of Fellows of the Irish Hospitality Institute (IHI). A former President of the Institute, he will head the College of Fellows during the 50th Anniversary of the IHI in 2016. Ewan Plenderleith was born in Scotland and has worked in Ireland for many years. He was General Manager of Aghadoe Heights Hotel in Killarney and then moved to the Herbert Park Hotel in Ballsbridge as General Manager, a post he has held for more than 10 years. Ewan is a former President of the Irish Hospitality Institute and Skal International Dublin.
EMPLOYER MANOR HOUSE COUNTRY HOTEL
Fermanagh’s Manor House Country Hotel, a member of the Manor House Hotels portfolio, has appointed Michelin-starred Rory Carville as its new Executive Chef. Rory will add his own award-winning touch to the hotel’s Belleek Restaurant, which has been awarded AA Rosettes for the last five years. Entitled ‘True to the region, true to the season,’ his new menu will be a fivecourse celebration of Co Fermanagh’s finest produce. In September 2010, Rory became Head Chef at Locks Brasserie where, three years later, his culinary talent was rewarded with a Michelin Star. He left Locks in July 2013 to open the Cleaver East restaurant in the Clarence Hotel with Oliver Dunne. His arrival at the Manor House Country Hotel follows a short spell as Executive Chef at the Armada Hotel, Co Clare.
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