Looking out on the Lough

HEAVY breathing phone calls have been par for the course for estate agent Christy Ryan these past few weeks – they’ve been mobile calls, made to him, by walkers doing the promenade around Cork’s Lough.

“You can hear the wind whistling in the background when the calls are made, and you know they’ve just stopped by my sign and are making the call immediately,” says the selling agent of Lucerne. It is a bit of a rare bird in its own right, right on the city’s hugely popular waterfowl sanctuary, and busy walking spot. Footfall here would challenge Patrick Street for activity level.

Not that Mr Ryan is complaining, mind, not all of those many, many phonecalls are idly made, as he’s had more than 30 people already through this market offering.