Bandon mart manager Tom McCarthy, never one to shy away from a good headline, had one for me on Monday.

The sale of a Co Limerick farm featured on these pages early in August registered a strong result at public auction last week, one that flies in the face of any talk of the Brexit effect dampening agricultural land prices.

A classy extension, hi-spec decor, and a great location make this family home a winner, writes Trish Dromey.

The Gigginstown House bull sale last Saturday scaled new heights, with a purchaser from West Cork, John Applebe, describing the sale as “another step up”.

I hear Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger is going under the knife this week. His heart is giving him trouble.

This week, it really feels life is zooming by. We are all busy. Between farming and confirmations. Between religion and our calling to the land, we haven’t a moment to spare.

Store cattle — and bullocks in particular — have suffered a €60 per head price drop over the past two weeks.

A beef farmer from Curraghawaddra whom I met in Macroom over the weekend asked me if this business of writing something for the paper every week was “a bit like a priest putting together his sermon?”

Farmland is continuing to sell at auction, albeit with some mixed fortunes.

This updated Tudor mansion also has 80 acres, nine chalets and a pub on its estate, writes Trish Dromey.

A little different from the average five-bed trade up, this property at Murroe in east Limerick has a few design features which make it stand out from the crowd.

Limerick man Vincent Campbell can truly toast the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger.

It might be worth buying a boat for the house viewings at Lough Derg — there’s a rapidly growing mix of waterfront period homes here for sale, many for millions of euro.

The farming business is not one that’s prone to its participants losing the run of themselves.

An impressive show of beef animals at Cappamore Show saw William R Gubbins of Kilfinane, Co Limerick winning both the GVM All Ireland€ 2,500 Commercial Beef Championship and the commercial championship of the show.

I made the mistake this week of mentioning Cheltenham and cattle prices in the same sentence to a friend. Came the reply, “Never mind the bloody horses.

YOUGHAL, CORK €395,000

UP for grabs tomorrow, this 53-acre farm is sure to draw interest from local farmers, and those throughout the Golden Vale.

LET for the past couple of years, this Mulderricksfield, Shanagolden farm has excellent grassland, says auctioneer Tom Crosse of GVM, who is to auction the 75-acre property on Friday, November 11.

THE directors of Sixmilebridge mart are confident that the community drive behind its reopening will also make it profitable in record time.

THERE’S location, location, location — and then, there’s Adare, one of the most sought-after addresses in the mid-west.

THE early sale of a 21-acre holding at Ballysimon, Co Limerick, left Tom Crosse of GVM quite pleased with the half million euro result for the residential holding.

A NICE Christmas present for Tom Crosse of GVM Limerick came a week early, when he sold a 35-acre holding at Crecora, within a week. The property, on a “posh” edge of Limerick city, was purchased by a businessman for €350,000 — €10,000 per acre.

THERE was a good result for the auction of a 133-acre farm at Athlacca, Co Limerick, last week, when the property sold for a total of €1.012m.

IT has a solid, two-storey farmhouse at its centre, and this 133-acre dairy farm at Rathcannon, Athlacca, is going to auction on the 20th of this month.

ONE step at a time: the first half of a pair of similar contemporary big semi-detached houses built at the end of a cul de sac at Cappa, Kilrush in Co Clare is a new market arrival, carrying a round €500,000 asking price.

HIS ashes were scattered in the Bahamas, but they could as easily have found a sacred resting place in Thomond Park, or Kilkee — both places of worship for the late Limerick actor Richard Harris.

LAUNCHED on the market earlier this year and then aborted because of title issues, a farm at Mount David, Shanagolden, Co Limerick, sold after auction last week.