The hotel is owed an estimated €20,000 and it is unclear how much of the bill will be paid.
A Co Galway hotel has been left out of pocket to the tune of an estimated €20,000 after hosting 250 cyclists on a charity sportive.
The event was hosted by the suicide bereavement organisation Console.
The charity has been beset by controversy for months and went into liquidation last month, leaving the hotel bill unpaid.
There is no suggestion whatever of any wrong doing on the part of any of the cyclists who took part in the event.
According to a report by in the Irish Independent, the Clayton Hotel in Co Galway hosted a large group of cyclists during the Console sportive but was never paid.
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And with the charity now in liquidation, the hotel is among a group of creditors owed money by the scandal-hit organisation.
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The cycling event was designed to raise funds for Console and awareness around the organisation’s services.
The cycle took place in June, with the cyclists riding from Celbridge in Co Kildare, where much of Console’s activities were based, to Galway across the country.
However, less than two weeks after the event Console’s chief executive Paul Kelly resigned amid allegations of extravagant spending of the charity’s money.
There are now a number of investigations ongoing into the organisation’s spending and governance and it is unclear whether the Clayton in Galway would be paid the money it is owed.
The hotel is among a large number of entities owed money by Console.
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