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West Cork s luscious Liss Ard Estate, bolt-hole of the stars and Star Wars, finds US buyers for c €3.5m Country estate and boutique hospitality venue near Skibbereen has had links with Cold War era Swiss spies, rock music s elite, has been a concert and wedding venue and an acclaimed Irish Sky Garden by artist James Turrell Liss Ard Estate Skibbereen Tommy Barker Property Editor A WEST CORK estate, once bought on behalf of the Swiss government as a safe Cold War times bolthole in case of nuclear attacks, has been sold 60 years later for c €3.5 million, during the teeth of a global pandemic. ....
‘It is a journalistic conceit to pretend you are unmoved by people. But I am not a journalist and I am not superior to this encounter.’ ‘I didn’t die,’ says Jeanmaire proudly. ‘They wanted me to, but I wouldn’t do them the favour.’ It is evening. We are alone in his tiny flat on the eastern outskirts of Bern. He is cooking cheese fondue for the two of us. On a shelf in the kitchen stand the steel eating bowls he used in prison. Why does he keep them? ‘For memory,’ he replies. In the tiny corridor outside hang the dagger and sabre that are the insignia of a Swiss army officer’s dress uniform. The drawing room is decorated with a reproduction medieval halberd and his diploma of architecture dated 1934. A signed photograph from General Westmoreland, commemorating a goodwill visit to Bern, is inscribed ‘General, Air Protection Troops’, Jeanmaire’s last appointment. ....