Having opened a €3m Avoca store in Dunboyne, Co Meath, just this week, a Cork Avoca is next in line for the expansionist, upmarket Irish food and household product company.

He tweeted sweet nothings to help out his neighbour — but, in the heel of the hunt, the global exposure that Graham Norton gave a West Cork house sale on his doorstep mattered little when it finally changed hands — after nearly a year and a half on the market — to an Irish buyer.

Ahakista, West Cork €1.2 million-plus

Friends in high places — no, not more on the Garth Brooks saga, it’s Graham Norton doing a social media favour for West Cork neighbours who are selling up in his beloved Ahakista.

BOTH have water views – and both vendors have taken a view to a sale, dropping asking prices by hundreds of thousands of euros.