House of the week: Shanagarry, East Cork

Now might be as good a time as any to invest in East Cork, oh, say around Ballycotton, or Shanagarry, where a B&B, Willoughby, is freshly up for sale.

There are big plans afoot for Ballycotton, for a privately driven tourism vision and investment injection, spearheaded by proud local native boy made good, Pearse Flynn.

The Ballycotton-born physicist turned tech entrepreneur, who currently owns and heads up UK debt solution company Creditfix, and who has been CEO of a number of companies turning over billions a year, along with owning shares in Scottish football clubs, is putting some of his money back into his birthplace, where he fished for lobsters as a child.