Westport House has been left out of the latest sale from NAMA's loan portfolio.

The Government intervened to ensure the stately home, which is in the Taoiseach's constituency, wasn't included in a bundle of properties code named 'Project Arrow' worth around 6 billion Euro.

NAMA's been criticised for giving the US vulture fund 'Cerberus' the chance to buy the loans.

Cerberus is currently being investigated by the FBI and was also the buyer of controversial Northern Ireland loans.

The current loans NAMA is selling are almost all under-performing and Irish Independent columnist Paul McNeive says that might make them attractive to buyers: