Going, going, gone to snap up some of the Celtic Tiger toys up for sale

IF you can’t sell your house, or are just stuck for cash in any case, how about selling some of the toys of the Celtic Tiger era?

A Kinsale, Co Cork estate agent is starting up a series of regular auctions so that people can dispose do unwanted or unused “stuff”, get a few quid in the piggybank, and buyers can go a-roving and bargain hunting at the same time .

“Thrift is the new cool,” says auctioneer Kevin Kelleher of Keane Mahony Smith (KMS), as he prepares to match buyers with sellers, albeit on a smaller scale than some of his previous property transactions.