Graham Norton turns estate agent with Twitter favour

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.

The BBC chat show supremo and broadcaster used the power of Twitter on Tuesday to plug the sale of his West Cork neighbours’ home at Ahakista to his 800,000 followers. Within the first 24 hours, his short tweet drove 5,500 curious fans to surf the web to check out the house on the auctioneer’s own website.

Norton tweeted “anyone looking for a house?” and then put a link to Skibbereen estate agent Charles P McCarthy website’s fresh listing of a property, ‘Kitchen Cove’, for sale in excess of €1.2m.