Enjoy a lakeside lifestyle on a manageable country estate

Tommy Barker says there’s much to admire in delightful Dereen House.

DESPITE appearances, not every single person in the country is broke or heading out of a job, and not ever cent and euro in the country’s coffers and private accounts has vanished without trace.

Someone will raid a mattress, or a bank account, or flog a deadbeat racehorse or offload a boat, or a villa – and find somewhere, somehow, the wherewithal to buy Dereen House. They may even face competitive bidding, despite the €2.2 million asking price, via agent Brian Olden of Cohalan Downing.