"Try to keep it simple. Try to keep it classical, so that it won’t date and you won’t get tired of it," says Terry O'Driscoll.

Is the Wild Atlantic Way holding sway over Bantry town, lifting its hotels before it? The selling agents of the Maritime Hotel, developed at a reported cost of €30m and now offered at just €1.5m, expect so, such is the pace of change on the West Cork town’s accommodation front.

AN interesting farm holding in the Mealagh Valley, near Bantry, has a bit of something for everyone.

A 66-acre property is bucking the trend and drawing interest on all fronts, writes Rose Martin.

HAVING Bertie Ahern sitting at the counter drinking Bass or having the Taoiseach’s constituency office across the road from his pub, didn’t deter Thomas Kennedy from keeping more than €1 million salted away from the taxman’s greedy grasp.