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With standing room only at a crowded auction room in the Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Property Partners Maxwell & Heaslip concluded its second round of auctions in as many weeks with two more excellent results, establishing a 75 per cent success rate for the city based auctioneers. In the present market this is impressive and has shown that the company has a proven formula for success.

By day Gerry Duffy is an auctioneer but as the night draws in Mr Duffy becomes the main man behind MacDuffs.

One more seat and three councillors retiring from politics makes the battle for the seven seats in the Castlebar electoral area one of the most interesting races in this year’s local elections. The transfers of Burriscarra, Portroyal and Roslee with their combined population of 1,327 people from the old Ballinrobe area to the Castlebar area has really thrown the race for seats in the county town wide open. There are 12 going to post on June 5 and, with only three sitting councillors going for re-election, there will be at the very least four new faces or maybe three new and one old representing the Castlebar area in the next council.

While the headlines may have been grabbed in the past few weeks with councillors urging the people of the town not to vote for a former councillor who has decided to come back for some more, the race for the nine seats in Castlebar Town Council promises to be one of the most exciting in the county.

Westport has one of the smallest fields running in the county for the June 5 election, with eight candidates putting their hats in the ring for the four seats. The major shift on the political landscape from the last local elections is the absence of one Frank Chambers from the ticket. The Newport based auctioneer has been a mainstay of politics in this area for a number of years, but with the redrawing of the boundaries seeing half the town of Newport being given over to Belmullet, Chambers decided to step away from the political circle. That leaves the three sitting councillors, Margaret Adams, Austin Francis O’Malley and John O’Malley, fighting it out with five others for the seats. The other declarations for the election are Caroline Nevin (Fianna Fáil), Peter Flynn (Fine Gael), Keith Martin (Labour), Dave Keating (Sinn Féin) and independent candidate Andy Wilson.

O’Donnellan & Joyce continue the success of selling properties by auction in Galway city when more than 20 bids were recorded on the sale of a house at 41 Beach Court, Salthill, Galway.

During the reign of the late lamented Celtic Tiger one of the more extreme but quite common trends in the property world was the growth of a sector where eager buyers regularly bought perfectly good houses and immediately applied for planning permission to demolish them in order to then build a ‘dream home’ on site. In latter years this had become a very commonplace occurrence, largely prompted by the dearth of really good sites in prime locations. While the steam has gone out of the ailing market and the wrecker’s ball is seldom seen in these straitened times, the basic fact remains that good sites are scarcer than the proverbial hen’s teeth.

Watching, willing, and waiting seem to be the all important Ws in the property market right now, according to auctioneer John Quinn who has reported an extremely active few weeks mainly due to realistic purchase prices.

Kilkenny city bucked the national trend on several occasions over election weekend but no occasion was more obvious than the performance of Fianna Fail in the borough council election.

This exceptional architect-designed five bedroom home is located on the outskirts Gort town. Presented in walk-in condition, this 2,500sq ft approx home overlooks the Gort River. Extended and refurbished by the present owners, this property has had care and attention lavished on it.