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.

EVEN the name Blair's Cove, sounds faintly exotic. It could easily be some Antipodean sun-kissed beach-spot, but Blair's Cove, on the shoreline of Dunmanus Bay is in west Cork, on five peninsular acres of Irish coastline.