{"id":662480,"date":"2026-10-22T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662480\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:42:09","slug":"ocean-sands-hotel-secures-five-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662480\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Sands Hotel secures five awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A number of hotels\u00a0 in Mayo and Sligo took awards at the 2026 Irish Hotel Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Hotel Awards recognise high standards across guest experience, service delivery, product quality and overall operational excellence.<\/p>\n<p>In Mayo, Ashford Castle Hotel won the Best 4 star Hotel and the Hotel Restaurant Awards, while Belleek Castle in Ballina won Best Afternoon Tea and Best Intimate Wedding Venue Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The Ocean Sands Hotel in Enniscrone secured five Connacht titles at the awards night.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel was recognised in five categories, with Jennifer Howley named Best General Manager, Marcin Szczodrowski awarded Best Chef, and Elaine Scanlon receiving the title of Best Marketing Manager.<\/p>\n<p>The hotel also won awards for Best Dog Friendly Venue and Best Coastal Escape.<\/p>\n<p>This latest success follows another national accolade for the Enniscrone hotel, which was recently named Best Pet Friendly Hotel in Ireland at the Georgina Campbell Ireland Guide Awards.<\/p>\n<p>General Manager Jennifer Howley has been speaking with Midwest Radio\u2019s Stephen Grealis, and expressed her delight at picking up the accolades\u2026Sli<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/JENNIFERAWARDS.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/JENNIFERAWARDS.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of hotels\u00a0 in Mayo and Sligo took awards at the 2026 Irish Hotel Awards. The Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-662480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662480","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=662480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}