Criminal’s house hardly a steal at €1 million

IT wasn’t exactly a steal for the buyers but the auction of Martin Cahill’s former home didn’t represent daylight robbery by the sellers either.

At just under €1 million, the winning bid for the house once occupied by the criminal known as The General was accepted by all involved as an honest day's work.

The detached four-bed at 17 Cowper Downs in Rathmines, Dublin, which was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau and sold on behalf of the State, attracted a modest level of buyer attention in the bidding room of Gunne Auctioneers in Ballsbridge yesterday.