LOCKDOWN LEADER: Adare Manor
One of Ireland’s top luxury hotels is doing its bit to help frontline medical staff and the local community during the Covid-19 crisis.
Adare Manor, the five-star hotel and golf resort in Limerick, is preparing over 200 meals a day for staff at Limerick’s University Hospital in Dooradoyle. This is on top of producing 70 meals a day for members of the local community cocooned during the emergency who are unable to travel and have no family member in a position to shop for them. The hotel is working with the Adare Community Trust to get the meals delivered by local volunteers.
The hotel’s award-winning chefs, who recently earned a 2020 Michelin star for the hotel’s restaurant The Oak Room, are serving up a menu that includes chicken casserole, fish and leek pie and beef stew for the hard-working hospital staff.
“It is absolutely brilliant to be getting these lovely meals from Adare Manor and it is really appreciated by the staff,” a senior hospital source told the Limerick Leader. “A lot of staff caring for patients particularly in the ICU don’t have time to go to the canteen for a lunch break and it is great that food can be brought to them in this manner.”
Social distancing measures at the hospital have reduced the numbers usually catered for in the staff canteen, meaning that the meals provided by the Manor are particularly welcome. The hotel, which hosts the Ryder Cup in 2026, is one of a number of local businesses helping frontline staff at the hospital. “We are very appreciative and in time will publically thank them all for their efforts,” the hospital source added.