Michael Fassbender joins Roy Keane in buying Cork city offices

Auctions were where much of the sales activity was for the Irish market in 2014 — with Shame and Hunger actor Michael Fassbender among those showing an appetite for a slice of the action. 

The top German-born actor, raised in Kerry, paid over €1.4m for a South Mall office building with Allsops, who have just reported €264m in sales for the year just ending.

Mr Fassbender joins Roy Keane as recent celeb buyers of South Mall, Cork city offices. Mr Keane bought the more slender No 44 for €450,000,back in 2011.