The mix does the trick on nine acres by Blackwater

LISMORE estate agent, actor and arts buff Ken Madden has another few strings to his bow — a cracking great local property on nine acres by the River Blackwater, as well as a property market-related book just out.

West-Waterford based Mr Madden has collaborated with former well-known restaurateur and one-time hotelier Ken Buggy, who himself has a hidden talent as a cartoonist just exposed. Messers Madden and Buggy, have the book Property, 100 Best Ways to Buy and Sell just published this week. It has a laugh on every page, essential light relief for these NAMARAMA days. Likely to have an international appeal (think the horse and boat cartoonist Thelwell) it is one of a series produced by Book Republic, see www.100bestways.com

That’s for light relief, but a serious offering via Ken Madden is the simply-titled Riverview, a property mix with a five bed house, an old cottage, productive gardens, the possibility of another house site and eight acres of pasture at Ballyduff Upper.