Welcome from Our Chief Executive, Michael Kearney
As Chief Executive of Carlton Hotel Group, I'd like to welcome you to the Carlton Hotel Group blog. The Carlton Hotel Group was established in 2004 and since then has developed as one of the premier Hotel Groups in Ireland. In the past 7 years Carlton has grown substantially from operating one hotel to having a presence in many locations throughout Ireland.
Through this blog it is my aim to give you an insight into what's going on in all of our hotels plus my opinions on current affairs, sports news, general activities and events. I will also occassionally invite some of my colleagues to write on the blog giving you more opinions and insights into what's going on at Carlton. If you have any questions or queries on any of the posts please leave a comment and I will respond at my earliest convenience. Enjoy reading.............
Posted: 2012-08-15 10:00:00
Very sad morning at the Carlton Hotel Blanchardstown today as we say goodbye to the 32 beautiful roses. I think Bruno will miss them most of all!!! A great night was had by all last night as we danced until the early hours of this morning with over 200 of our corporate guests and some very special visitors from the Share a Dream Foundation at our Flavor of Dublin evening. After breakfast the girls will make a quick trip to Newbridge Silverware after which they will make their way to the Carlton Shearwater Hotel for lunch and finally this evening they will be hosted for the first time in the Carlton Atlantic Coast Hotel in Westport, where i know Gareth and the team have a fantastic night planned. It has been an absolute pleasure to host the Ladies over the last few days and I cann ...
Posted: 2012-08-14 00:00:00
The Carlton Fairy did indeed arrive thanks to our very good friends in the Yankee Candle Store in the Blanchardstown Shopping centre who gifted the girls with beautiful True Rose candles. Another very busy day fro the 32 International Roses, time for a quick breakfast and then off they go to a jam packed day including a photo call in RTE, an official welcome by the minister of Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht, Jimmy Dennihan, at Leinster house and of course no trip to Dublin is complete without a visit to the Guinness Storehouse! We also have some very special guests from the Share a Dream Foundation coming to visit and spend the night with the Roses at our Carlton Flavor of Dublin Evening. It promises to be an eventful night with 250 invited guests and local foods and ...
Posted: 2012-08-13 14:00:00
The 32 beautiful Roses arrived late last night and have spent their first night of three here at the Carlton Hotel Blanchardstown. To make them feel at home they each recieved a box of Lily O Brien's chocolates in their rooms when they arrived! At the moment they are up and about looking excited and a bit nervous as their interviews take place today with the Judges. If you call down to us here at the Carlton Hotel Blanchardstown you might even spot newlywed Dáthí as he mixes and gets to know all the girls.....its a tough job but someone has to do it!!!!! Tonight the girls head off in their custom tour bus to Newbridge Silverware but will be back in bed before the clock strikes 12! And if they are very lucky the Carlton Fairy might have left them another ...
Posted: 2012-08-10 17:00:00
The Olympics are now in full swing and this week has been one of the best so far for the Irish athletes. On Monday evening Katie Taylor secured a place in the semi-finals and guaranteed herself at least a bronze medal as she beat Great Britain’s Natasha Jones. Not content with the bronze she went on to beat Mavzuna Chorieva from Tajikistani on Wednesday to reach the lightweight Olympic final. And it was in this final against Russia’s Sofia Sofya Ochigava that Katie really showed why she is Ireland’s golden girl! The final took place in the ExCel Arena in London on Thursday afternoon with the Irish fans making up most of the 10,000 strong audience. Back in Ireland, there were thousands gathered in Katie’s hometown of Bray to cheer her on while the othe ...
Posted: 2012-08-03 17:00:00
Let me start by congratulating my adopted county Kildare on their victory over Sligo last Saturday evening. Kildare secured their place in the All Ireland Senior Football Quarter Finals with a 0-13 to 0-4 win against Sligo and will now go on to face Cork this Sunday. Cork are the strong favourites but there have been a few surprises in this year’s championship so Kildare could still beat the Rebels on Sunday. This week began with a trip to one of my favourite events of the year, the Galway Racing Festival. I was at the opening day as the Carlton Hotel Galway City were sponsoring the 5.45pm feature race which had a €70,000 prize for the winner. The evening got off to a great start, the weather was perfect and there was a great atmosphere amongst the crowd of 17,000 peop ...
Posted: 2012-07-27 13:00:00
The big news this week is of course the Olympic Games in London and the opening ceremony tonight. There will be 80,000 spectators at the opening ceremony and an estimated 1 billion television viewers. I know I’ll be one of those 1 billion as there has been so much hype surrounding the event it’s promising to be memorable. I’m sure I won’t be the only one this side of the pond tuning in as we all route for Team Ireland, no doubt some of you have booked time off around the most popular events!Here at Carlton we always like to keep on top of what is going on and run promotions or campaigns around them. As I mentioned last week we’ve just launched our Rose of Tralee campaign and there was no way we could let this summer’s Games pass by without a pr ...
Posted: 2012-07-20 17:00:00
This week at Carlton, Rose of Tralee fever has really kicked in! Our Sales & Marketing team have just launched this year’s Rose of Tralee campaign and I can’t believe it’s that time already. I know I probably say it ever year but it doesn’t feel like the last one was a year ago, time really does seem to be flying by. Our Sales & Marketing team have spent months preparing ideas and getting the campaign together as it is such a huge event for us.This year we are challenging Lisdoonvarna as we actually believe the Rose of Tralee Festival could be the biggest match making festival in Ireland! This is our fifth year sponsoring the festival and throughout the years we have seen and heard of so many relationships that have blossomed during the festival. W ...
