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Tue 07 Jul 2007€74m to be spent on hotels in NorthNorthern Ireland received a jobs and tourism boost yesterday with the announcement that five new hotels are to be built in the North at a cost of £50 million (€74 million), creating up to 200 jobs.Andras House, run buy Lord Diljit Rana, is to build the hotels under the international Ibis brand, which has more than 750 hotels in 36 countries. Ibis hotels form part of the French-owned Accor Group.