FBD Hotels and Resorts plans to upgrade the hotel’s rooms, bar, and dining facilities, as well as conference, wedding, and leisure offerings.

The planned orders, which deal in detail with various factors affecting the level of losses sustained, will have a bearing on about 1,000 Irish pubs and restaurants holding FBD policies

The remaining issues between the insurers and owners of Dublin's Sinnott's Bar and The Leopardstown Inn largely centred around the amount of losses paid to publicans.

The cases were briefly mentioned before Mr Justice Denis McDonald on Tuesday who expressed his disappointment that all four test actions had not been resolved

FBD is confident of not having to pay out any further Covid disruption insurance cover on existing business policies beyond what it has already agreed with around 1,100 publicans.