Edward Holdings has categorically denied that the former Corrib Heights hotel will be used as a home for asylum seekers.

The owners of the former hotel, Edward Holdings, are in the process of deciding how best to "sympathetically redevelop this seven-acre site in the best long-term interests of the city of Galway".

According to Mr David Barrett, Development Director of the Monogram Hotel Group, they received a request from the Department of Justice but decided it would not be in the best interests of the asylum seekers.

"We had a request from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, through East Coast Catering, for short-term asylum accommodation in the former Corrib Great Southern," explained Mr Barrett.

"We have given this request serious consideration, however, we do not think that this request fits into our long-term plans for this site, nor do we consider it in the best interests of the asylum seekers as they would have to be re-housed at some point in the near future."

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