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Fri 12 Dec 2007Fitzpatrick sees room to expand as hotels fill to brimOn Monday, in the lobby of his 92-room Fitzpatrick Manhattan hotel on New York's Lexington Avenue, John Fitzpatrick bumped into a couple from Dublin that he knows well. Ciarán Hancock, Business Affairs Correspondent, reports."I asked them if they were over for the shopping?" he explained. "He said, 'she's over for the shopping but I'm here to buy a couple of buildings'. Irish people just seem to have plenty of money and they're spending a lot of it here, very quietly."