
The the people of Kyiv have learned to live with it. I heard over a dozen explosions and when I looked out of the window, I could see what looked like flares falling, but I think those might have been the debris from the rockets.Ĭommenting on Kyiv's response to this latest barrage, Heathcliff continued: With artillery it's different, but it was a very noisy night and the hotel shook. I got woken up by the explosions and I've never heard anything like it. He began by talking live to Telegraph Photojournalist Heathcliff O'Malley, who gave a first hand account of last night's missile strike on Kyiv: Several were also incorporated as company structures that do not require them to provide details of their internal finances and profits in filed annual financial accounts.Dominic Nicholls, Associate Editor of Defence, hosts today's podcast episode. The payments were made to Tetrarch’s company, Cape Wrath Hotel UC, which owns the 764-bed Citywest Hotel and connected convention centre in southwest Dublin, which the department runs as a transit hub for asylum seekers arriving in the country.įinancial records show a number of the highest-paid companies were ultimately owned by corporate structures registered in locations such as Luxembourg, Malta and the Isle of Man. The second highest paid company, Tetrarch Capital, received at least €34 million to accommodate asylum seekers and Ukrainians, according to department figures. The group received a further €20.5 million under a contract where it provided its new 393-bed Travelodge hotel on Townsend Street, Dublin city, to the State to exclusively use as accommodation for asylum seekers. The department separately paid €25.8 million to accommodate asylum seekers and Ukrainians in Travelodge hotels, which are owned by Tifco.

Figures show Tifco Ltd, the Irish hotel business owned by US private-equity group Apollo, was paid at least €37 million by the department to lease rooms in its hotels.
