A HUNDRED people crowded into the Minella Hotel in Clonmel last week for one of the most significant farm auctions in south Tipperary for decades.

MONKS in the Roscrea college where Taoiseach Brian Cowen was educated have decided to sell a 200-acre farm, partly because of falling vocations.

IT can’t be said often enough that moving out of the city makes financial, and even psychological, sense, and, considering the price of houses in middle Ireland, this could prove easy.