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Charlie Haughey's Abbeville For Sale...

Charlie Haughey's beloved Kinsealy estate on the market for a knockdown €7.5m... FORMER Taoiseach Charlie Haughey's Abbeville mansion has gone on the market for a fraction of the €45m he sold it for a decade ago. Abbeville, in north Dublin, now has an asking price of just over €7m - after the company that owns it went into receivership. The former Taoiseach sold the property with stud farm in 2003, and was believed to be under pressure to sell as he negotiated a €5m settlement with the Revenue Commissioners at the time. The new asking price is 16.7 pc of what Haughey sold it for a decade ago. However, the purchaser, Joe Moran's Manor Park Homes, subsequently went into receivership after Bank of Scotland Ireland sought to recover outstanding debts. Receiver Tom Kavanagh selected estate agents Savills from a number of agents whom he asked to advise on the sale of Abbeville. The estate appears in today’s Irish Times property section and is described as: “A magnificent Gando