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THE dream house that a couple had their eye and hearts set on, and finally managed to buy, is unexpectedly about to become the home of some new occupants.

Writer Ruth Allen Mulryan and partner, RTE producer Peter Mulryan, dreamed of this house at Derinacahera, Dunmanway in West Cork, for days, sleepless nights, through weeks and intermittently for several years.

Ruth, originally from Scotland, wrote a house hunter's diary over several months for the Irish Examiner' property pages. This house was the yardstick by which she judged all others. "It was never really for sale, or so we felt, it was on the market, but yet it wasn't. We had the impression it was just there to test the market, but they clearly weren't keen to sell," says Peter Mulryan.