P.V. Doyle Holdings, Ireland's largest privately controlled hotel group, has appointed Mr Billy McCann as a non executive director. Mr McCann is former managing partner of Craig Gardner/Price Waterhouse, chairman of the Electricity Supply Board and a director of the Central Bank.

The move follows the appointment, earlier this year, of Dr Paddy Galvin, former Waterford Crystal chief executive, as non executive chairman. At the time, Doyle Holdings said the plan was to be bring in further non executive directors. There are now three non family members on the board which also has six directors from the Doyle family. The company is expected to appoint further non executive directors.

Mr David Doyle, who is in his mid thirties, returned as managing director last March, having resigned a year and a half earlier, after a dispute with the other shareholders, who are his mother Margaret, his brother and three sisters.

Doyle Holdings owns 10 hotels two in Washington, one in London and seven in Dublin. It generated a profit of some £11 million on a turnover of more than £50 million in the year to end of November 1995.