Tommy Barker reports on a €3.5million dream home that will ensure the exodus of high rollers to West Cork continues.

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.

AT THE risk of national stereotypes, when you hear that a house is both designed and lived in by a Swiss architect, you form a certain impression of style and quality — and this Dromreagh Durrus home does nothing to dispel that line of thought.