BALLYOGAN HOUSE is not a property for the average buyer, even if the guide price is half of what it would have been in the boom.

THIS is a big modern house, an American barn with floors you could eat your dinner from and 25 pristine acres with primed, paddock fencing.

IRELAND’S unsustainable “black hole” hotels which have littered the country for more than a decade will be killed off at the rate of one a week, Ireland’s leading food and accommodation critic has predicted.