A group of businessmen have picketed outside Whites hotel in Wexford this evening in a dispute over payment.
They include traders, sub-contractors and suppliers who worked on the development of the new hotel.
As many as 60 people were involved.
They and the main contractors, Cleary and Doyle, are owed €3.2m by the hotel's owners.
Building work on the hotel was completed in August 2006, but contractors say they have only been paid a third of the money they are owed.
The case was before the High Court earlier this year, and Cleary and Doyle secured a judgment for payment of the debt by Balmaford, the company legally responsible for Whites hotel.
The protest is the first in a planned campaign. Balmaford has declined to comment.
Whites said tonight that a separate development company was responsible for the employment of all sub contractors.
They added that to date over €37m has been paid over to the main contractor Clear and Doyle.
Whites Hotel also said that no court order existed against it in favour of the main contractor.
