Hug and a tear seals €2.75m property deal

IT IS not often a €2.75 million property deal is sealed with a hug and a tear in the middle of a shanty-town in South Africa.

Even rarer does it occur when the only solicitors and auctioneers present are volunteering in the scramble to build 200 houses for impoverished people in less than a week.

But this is exactly how property developer Seán Dunne handed over a penthouse in an exclusive Foxrock estate to charity boss Niall Mellon.