RELATIVES of Dublin's famous Red Cow Hotel owner Tom Moron are maintaining a bedside vigil in Spain after the hotelier was rushed to hospital with a suspected head injury.
The well-known businessman, who owned several hotels in Britain before selling them in a multimillion pound deal in 2015, is being treated in Malaga in the Costa del Sol after he fell ill while attending a wedding in the area over the weekend.
Speaking to The Irish Post today from Spain, Mr Moran's son Tommy said there was 'no change' in Mr Moran's condition.
He also stated that reports in some newspapers saying his father had fallen off a chair were 'inaccurate'.
Moran began his career in London in the 1970s where he and his wife Sheila managed a number of pubs. The couple took over London's renowned Crown pub in Cricklewood in 1998, developing the adjacent Crown Moran Hotel, which remains a popular venue for the Irish diaspora in London.
In 2008, the Moran Group purchased Bewley's Hotels, a group that employs around 1,200 people. The hotels were sold in a €455m deal with Dalata last year but Mr Moran kept Moran's Red Cow Hotel at Newland's Cross in Dublin as part of the transaction.
People from Mr Moran's native Limerick have been sending their best wishes for a speeding recovery, including top school St Munchin's college.
We extend our best wishes to Tom Moran to whom we wish a speedy recovery @MoranTommy
— St Munchin's College (@stmunchins) June 20, 2016
04.11pm UPDATE: The Irish Post has learned Mr Moran has now been taken out of an induced coma, in a bid to treat a number of blood clots in the brain and is breathing on his own. A source close to the family say they are pleased everything is 'going in the right direction'.
