His son-in-law, Victor Marcel Charles Barrois de Sarigny, ran the hotel until 1929.

The ITGWU objected to this, due to the existing high unemployment, but quickly reached an agreement on the training of Irish chefs and kitchen staff.

[12] For a period the hotel supplied food for state banquets in the nearby Department of Foreign Affairs at Iveagh House via its Robert Emmet Grill.

The hotel was taken over in 1966 by the Kingsley Windsor group from London, who also acquired the adjoining former site of Wesley College.

This was granted permission in June 1970, and the hotel was later closed ahead of demolition in April 1974.