New life for donkeys means you could enjoy the good life

Rose Martin delights in this gem within an ass’s roar of Kenmare.

THE man, the wife, the doll’s house and the donkey thieves — there’s a bit of a story wrapped up in this bayside property at Feorus West, Kenmare.

Early retirees, Gwynne and Barbara Lyons, were looking for a holiday home in Ireland, (they are second generation London-Irish-Welsh), and were being pushed towards west Cork by friends. However, a visit to the Kingdom changed all that.