Offering luxury on an intimate scale

GOING into a new niche business at a time of global and local economic downturn doesn’t faze Northern Ireland born businessman Des McGahan.

After all, he opened up his last major venture, sports promotions, in Hong Kong in the midst of street rioting after the June 1989 massacres at Tiananmen Square.

After an inauspicious start, the business was sold in the mid-1990s, netting him and his partners millions. He’s typically optimistic that his current pet project, luxury private residential accommodation pitched at the rich, famous and the corporate set, on the edge of Kinsale in Cork will equally take off.