The couple who own some of Ireland’s best-known pubs, including Kehoes and The Stag’s Head in Dublin, shared a bumper pay-packet of €6.8m last year.

PRICES are down countrywide, but there are locations that hold their relative value.

THE Ballincollig by-pass has driven prices for house sites between Ballincollig and Macroom upwards by as much as €100,000 in the past year.