Waterfront property just perfect

EXCEPT that he’s too proper to say it, estate agent Charles McCarthy might bill the €1.5 million price tag on this waterfronting west Cork home “a drop in the ocean compared to what’s being dropped in the ocean nearby.”

The Skibbereen auctioneer is handling the sale of a 84-acre property at Kilcomane, Dunbeacon six miles west of Durrus, and diagonally over the peninsula from Dunlough Bay by the Mizen which was spectacularly awash in on €100m worth of cocaine in the middle of last week.

Hauls of this size make even Irish property look cheap, and this Kilcomane offering has been owned for year by continental Europeans.