Graham Norton’s tweet goes global but West Cork neighbour sells home to Irish buyer

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.

Just turning up on the Price Register as selling for €975,000 is Kitchen Cove, Ahakista, a glorious seaside bolt-hole with its own beach and pier and five acres of grounds, facing Graham Norton’s own Georgian holiday house on Dunmanus bay.

When it went to market in July 2014, with a guiding price of €1.2m, Norton who now has 1.18m Twitter followers tweeted ‘anybody looking for a house?,’ providing a link to Kitchen Cove’s sale website.