Tupperware tycoon closes the lid on €3.5m land deal in Co Cork

The sale of 370 acres at Hangman’s Point, Kinsale, Co Cork, to Tupperware tycoon Richard Goings has finally closed the lid on a protracted development sage on the sensitive coastal site.

Goings has acquired half of what was to be the Kinsale Harbour Resort site for nearly €3.5m, or just under €10,000 per acre, regarded as a good price for a buyer, even in agricultural land values.

And while the chief executive of the Tupperware brand slated US consumers earlier this year for what he termed a “discount mentality”, Goings wasn’t averse to picking up a bargain himself — the Ballymacus/Prehane tillage land he bought was originally acquired for multiples of the amount he paid.