Mon 15th Dec 2014 - Wetherspoon to open 100-bedroom hotel in Dublin Wetherspoon to open 100-bedroom hotel in Dublin: JD Wetherspoon has purchased Camden Hall Hostel in Dublin city centre – and is set to open its biggest hotel ever with a 100-bedroom hotel on the site, together with a pub. It will invest more than four million euros developing the pub and hotel, creating up to 75 new jobs. Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin said: “We are pleased to have acquired this excellent building in the heart of Dublin. Our aim is to build a pub and hotel on the site and we believe both will be assets to the city.” Wetherspoon has also acquired a former bank and retail unit in Waterford in the Republic of Ireland (population: 46,731). Tomorrow, (December 16) the company will be opening its second pub in the Republic of Ireland, The Forty Foot in Dun Laoghaire. The Dublin site has planning permission for a 165 room hotel. Wetherspoon will be applying for revised planning and licensing permission for the hotel and pub. Last week, JD Wetherspoon announced that it is no longer trading with a major supplier, Heineken, at any of its 926 pubs in the UK and Republic of Ireland. Heineken refused to supply Heineken lager (Ireland’s biggest-selling draught beer) and Murphy’s stout to Wetherspoon’s new pub in Dun Laoghaire in the Republic of Ireland and also demanded personal guarantees from Wetherspoon chief executive, John Hutson, in order to supply any other products for the Dun Laoghaire pub. The company will sell Tom Crean’s lager, brewed in Dingle, instead. Wetherspoon has been selling Heineken lager and Murphy’s at under €3 a pint in its first pub in the Republic of Ireland, The Three Tun Tavern at Blackrock, against an average price in Irish pubs of around €5.