Dublin’s profit-making Castleknock Golf Course, on 125 acres by the capital, is being sold with a €2.5m price tag.

Bidders for the jewel in Cork’s €20m tourism crown came from India, Taiwan, the US, Europe, China, and Cork — with a Chinese family, the Kangs, yesterday coming up trumps.

The Thai-Chinese billionaire who is buying the 500-acre Fota Resort for more than €20m is likely to make further Irish investments — and spend heavily on Fota, guaranteeing its future and jobs.

The fourth richest man in China is on the brink of a €20m-plus deal to buy the prestigious Fota Island Golf and Hotel resort in Cork.

AFTER a number of low-key and low-profile but significant viewings, the 500-acre Fota Island Resort finally gets its formal market launch this week.

THE 500-acre Fota Island Resort in Cork harbour, which is expected to make between €20 million and €25m, is to get an international sales campaign in January.

THERE are contradictory, pre- and end-of Celtic era touches to Kilkenny’s Coolmore estate, on 242 acres.

THE Government was roundly criticised by local politicians yesterday for its failure to buy Lissadell House, the Sligo stately home where Countess Markievicz and her sister, poet Eva Gore Booth, spent their formative years.

DESPITE economic gloom, there’s a strong market still for €1-million-plus homes in Cork city.