‘We want to bring our own personalities to it’ – the new owners of John and Francis Brennan’s The Lansdowne

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Aileen and Patrick Hanley in The Lansdowne

Nicola Brady

When you walk from reception through to the restaurant of The Lansdowne, you pass a framed photograph on the antique writing desk.

In the black and white picture, a handsome couple stand in front of the hotel, holding an infant. That child, Patrick Hanley, now owns the hotel once owned by his parents, bringing it back into the family for the first time in 24 years.