Coastal Living: Celebrating the eternal appeal of life by the sea

Ballylickey's Carrigdhoun Quay — a do-er up —  with water frontage and on the N71 has had a price drop to €400,000 from €475,000 with planning for a replacement build, via Hodnett Forde.
We had the property crash and recovery; we had Brexit; we had covid, we have the climate crisis; we have global and transatlantic trade and political uncertainty, and now we have tariffs threatening the Irish economy and employment.
And still we do love to be beside the seaside … When the sun shines here, we Irish run to water, like over-heated lemmings, so much so that in recent weeks Gardai have had to close off beaches such was the demand in familiar hot-spots and accessible settings.