This is a new version of Oscar Wilde’s classic tale of the handsome young man of the title (Barnes) who sells his soul for an eternity of staying handsome and living a life of debauchery while a portrait in the attic turns ugly and terrifying.

HAVING searched the entire country for an Irish home back in the mid-1990s, Austrian playwright Felix Mitterer settled happily upon the set piece that is Castlelyons House.

THE upper end of the residential market is strong, with buyers prepared to commit to multi-million euro purchases irrespective of the punitive 9% stamp duty.