{"id":243870,"date":"2026-01-14T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243870\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:48:08","slug":"hope-for-long-closed-wicklow-hotel-as-prospective-buyers-signal-intent-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243870\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for long-closed Wicklow hotel as prospective buyers signal intent to reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lawless Hotel in Aughrim, Co Wicklow.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/617cba61-8c0d-4e73-a38c-36cc55c73ab4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Lawless Hotel in Aughrim, Co Wicklow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There is renewed hope that one of Wicklow\u2019s best-known hotels could get a new lease on life after the Lawless Hotel in Aughrim went sale agreed, with the prospective new owners signalling their intention to retain its former use and reopen as a hotel, bar and restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dating back to 1787, the iconic establishment served as a popular venue and coach stop and was regarded as one of the Garden County\u2019s most beloved hotels, before closing during the pandemic, falling into disrepair, and never reopening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawless Hotel in Aughrim, Co Wicklow. There is renewed hope that one of Wicklow\u2019s best-known hotels could get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5718,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-243870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}