Housing scheme provides the best in the west

THERE’S nothing like local enterprise. In a region where the blow-in was the catalyst for a cultural revolution, it didn’t take long for locals to see the marketing potential of the West Cork brand.

First there was property, then came food, and an explosion of good restaurants and suppliers, and now it’s back to property again.

With most of the old farmhouses sold off, the days of picking up a rundown shack by the sea are well and truly gone and the era of the ready-built home has arrived.