We're launching a new menu in the Matt Ryan Bar

At the Grand Hotel we know how important it is to eat well; we have designed a new menu full of only high quality fresh ingredients. Keeping all the old favourites we have added a few surprises.

Why not pop in and try our new selection of gourmet sandwiches, choose from a delicious ploughman, mouth-watering open prawn sandwich or our very own Matt Ryan Sandwich to name a few. These dishes are all made with the best products on the market.

Just fancy a nibble, why not try out new deluxe nacho sharing platter or our selection of artisan breads with humus dip, black olive tapenade, basil pesto and chilli oil.

Perhaps you are looking for a bigger bite; we have introduced a wholesome beef and Guinness pie to our menu, tender diced beef, baby onions and mushrooms cooked in rich Guinness and thyme jus, topped with a puff pastry case and served with champ potatoes.

Have we made your mouth water yet? Why not view our new menu here and call in and try our new delicious dishes.

Keep an eye out for our new healthy, gluten free and vegetarian options.

The Matt Ryan bar is open for food from 10.30am to 9.30pm

Laura Stotesbury- Research & Marketing Executive

Staff Achiever of the First Quarter 2013

Congratulations to Eoin Smartt (Leisure Specialist) who was awarded Staff Achiever of the First Quarter 2013 in the Grand Hotel this afternoon.

Eoin has been working in our Arena Health and Fitness Club for almost 5 1/2 years, always going that extra mile for clients, his colleagues and the Hotel.

Well done, Eoin!

Sarah Ann McGrath - Assistant HR Manager

Another reason to visit the bustling village of Malahide

Tom Cruises Irish Ancestral Roots Revealed

Thomás O'Cruise (Tom Cruise) it has been revealed is a descendant of Patrick Russell Cruise who lived in Seatown Castle in Malahide during the early 1800's. (Now Seatown House, located just past the entrance to Malahide Rugby Club)

Here he is accepting his certificate of Irishness from the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore.

Tom Cruise's Irish roots can be traced back 840 years to the arrival of Strongbow in Ireland. Tom was christened Thomas Cruise Mapother IV and the story of his Irish ancestors - the Cruises, the Russells and the Mapothers - is one of knights, rebels and hero’s.

Click here for more details on Tom Cruise's Irish Roots and an overview of the research involved.

Laura Stotesbury- Research and Marketing Executive