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EVER FANCIED SPENDING an early morning on the shortest day of the year in a prehistoric passage grave in Meath?
If you’ve applied for just that type of morning out, today is the day to be excited.
Names are to be picked out of a hat (more a massive drum, really) for the 50 tickets to Newgrange on 21 December today.
Junior Minister Simon Harris will be in the visitor centre at the site today launching the lottery and an art competition that gives schoolchildren the chance to win themselves a place in the tomb.
The Winter Solstice Lottery draw takes place every year to select the names of the people who will be allowed access to the Newgrange Chamber over the winter solstice period.
This year, the OPW received almost 30,000 applications from destinations all around the world.
They say that this is “proof of the enduring popularity of this amazing annual cultural experience”.
Children from three local National Schools of Donore, Knockcommon and Slane will draw the lucky winners on the day. Each applicant is given a ticket which the OPW says is then placed in a drum and pulled out at random.
Fifty people will receive tickets for two in the draw to see sunlight fill the room early on 21 December.
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I suppose It’ll go down a bit now that Cowen’s gone.
Ha ha Rory, spot on!
Enda promises to prove you wrong on that, Rory! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIXps3X6Sdc
It seems our Politicians are more fond of the Dáil Bar than doing the work they were elected to do?
Indeed, from what I’ve read in the news last week, this seems to be the case.
Seriously, why do they even have a bar. And people wonder why the country is in a jocker, when the people who run it have a nice bar to drink out of.
By the look of them I would guess the restaurant has tripled it’s turnover.
Most are obese!!
These greedy cheating TD’s keep feeding on our citizens like cannibals.
Not too many fit for anything. Look at the Healy Rea’s for everything that is repulsive.
Twice as many Drunks i suppose.
Jeez if the sales fell in 2009, I can only imagine what the sales are like now that Brian ‘bucket arse’ Cowen and the FF politburo is gone.
Maybe Ming will turn it into a hash cafe one day!
I suppose the only good thing is that they’re supporting Irish jobs, by buying Guinness.
More considerate TDs drinking tea or juices in place of the usual pint or shot?
Really can’t stand the sight of that man. Sneering, power hungry, fianna failer. Why Bertie hasn’t been tarred and feathered is beyond me.</rant>
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