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Daniel O`Donnell Sells House

The entertainment fans are always waiting for moments like this. The Irish country and traditional Irish music singer Daniel O`Donnell and his wife Majella are selling their house, which has eight bedrooms, on Cruit Island. With a price tag of 3 millions euro, the house has spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean with extensive gardens and terraces for guests` and residents` entertainment.

But if you do not really want to buy the house and just want to see it around for entertainment purposes, you may not get in through the door. The firm selling the house has steps in place to vet prospective viewers so that time-wasters can be eliminated. Pat O`Hagan from HOK Country, who along with Knight Frank`s London-based Country Department have been instructed in the sale, said there were ways of managing would-be viewers.

In an interview to an entertainment magazine he said: "We deal with the high end of the market and we are well used to people wanting to have a look around houses. Despite our methods somebody might get through the loop but we can quickly find out if they are a nosey parker or not. We are instructed to screen people as best we can and in this case it will be easy enough to tell if someone has 3m euro or more to spend on this house."