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AN ORIGINAL COPY of the Irish Proclamation has sold for €150,000 at an auction in Dublin today.
The auction, held by Fonsie Mealy auctioneers, is taking place at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin this evening. The copy of the Proclamation is said to have hung in the GPO during the Rising and is among more than 600 items for sale.
It was sold to an anonymous telephone bidder. A bundle of keys for the GPO were also sold this evening for €3,400.
A spokesperson for the auctioneers told TheJournal.ie there was huge interest in today’s sale and particularly in the rare copy of the Proclamation.
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Another Champagne Socialist, born to a billionaire family, pretending to be down with the homies. We have our own version in Murphy.
@Mick Jordan: his father spent years in prison , under the false pretense of being a communist. Hardly the lavish lifestyle you describe , even if he did do well for himself in later years.
@Randompersonofthenet: But he didn’t do anytime in Prison. He grew up as the son of a Billionaire.
i don’t agree with most of his leftist ideas, but he has the bona-fides. A lot more educated than half the career politicians in the EU. Greece has always had a large left wing following so i could see him garnering a lot of support there. His debates and lectures are worth watching.
Should call it the ‘We won’t pay party’
@Nick Allen: No call it “The People Against Work Party”
@John Mc Donagh: Or “At Least We Speak Our Own Language Party”
@Nick Allen: No call it “At Least We Speak Our Own Language Party”
@John Mc Donagh: Or “At Least We Don’t Support Football Clubs Of Our Conquerors Party”
What constitues him being called a maverick?
@Nigel O’Neill: The leather jacket.
@Nigel O’Neill: opposition to the EU ripping ordinary people off
@Nigel O’Neill: He got his best friend Goose killed during a flight training drill. Although he was acquitted of wrong doing as his fighter jet hit a jet wash and entered an uncontrollable flat spin into the ocean deep down he’ll always know it was his hot dog approach to in flight safety and his unrealistic populist economic that left Goose’s annoying wife and dim witted child without a husband/father.
@Nigel O’Neill: He’s known to carry a flick knife. Uses the occasional swear word. Owns a bandana.
@David Huston:
Would that be the same EU which generously arranged a loan of taxpayer money to the Greek government despite that socialist government refusing to cut bloated public sector salaries and pensions?
@Fergus Sheahan:
Ah Fergus, have you lost that loving feeling?
@Nick Allen: sings song to a woman in a bar unsolicited gets rejected them follows her into the toilet…his Maverick character wouldn’t’ cope well in this current #metoo environment
@Fergus Sheahan: Cheers Fergus. Been having a lousy Monday and that actually gave me a good laugh!
Ah yes. Yanis the clown. Get fired from your job as finance minister within 6 months of arriving on the job after refusing to implement basic cuts to the bloated public sector. Then tour Europe and US plugging a book as though you were some sort of economic guru.
Let us never forget the sight of Pearse Doherty and co arriving in Athens to give support to their comrades in Syrizia. Within 6 months, the banks were shut! What a bunch of clowns.
@Fred Joyson:
Good summary
@Fred Joyson: austerity doesn’t work. A shame more politicians don’t have guts. Time to give the boys in Goldman Sachs two fingers and vote for parties that won’t let the debts of others be passed to the taxpayer.
@prop joe:
It seems to be getting Ireland out of the hole we were in. Austerity is not a nice thing top go through but the Greek welfare system was / is such a basket case the people have to pay for it
@Nick Allen: if I loan money to a dead beat, I shouldn’t be surprised not to get it back. Greece was ruined by being allowed into the euro. The pain of the Greek people was caused by incompetent governance as well as outside bankers who lent money that would never be paid back. Yanis tried to end the madness but the EU would not do a deal. Spain, Italy are also up the creek so extend and pretend seems to be the only solution the EU has.
@prop joe:
The deal Greece wanted was for the EU tax payer to pick up their tab.
@prop joe: unlike the USA, who print money instead. All finance is based on the concept of the IOU. The only thing that changes is the term of the loan and the risk.
@Fred Joyson: Do you forget why banks shut?ECB cut liquidity to banks before Greek Referendum re EU deal!Don’t forget either in documents during EU negotiations, section in documents re Brexit!
@Nuala Mc Namara: GREXIT!
Greece has been decimated by Left wing politics. And this clown wants even more.
@Tony Kennedy: The collapse of Greece’s economy happened under successive right wing governments. Do your homework.
@Dermo Adams:
It happened under successive alternating left and right wing governments.
@Dermo Adams: new democracy, similar to FFG was the party that fiddled the numbers. Funny how people forget that !!!!
Pay for nothing party indeed.
@Dermo Adams:
Civil servants retiring from the age of 45 doesn’t sound like right wing politics
@Nick Allen: we had politicians retiring on lotto type pensions and lump sums close to 45 … and we never had a left leaning government.
@Ian Kavanagh:
Can you give an example? A senior minister with 20 years service is entitled to a pension of a bit north of 90k a year. Lump sum is 3 times this. Hardly lotto money.
I agree that being able to claim it early is wrong
@Nick Allen: How much of a pension pot would you need to get 90K a year from the age of 50 ???
I believe you would have to have a pot of a couple of million .. no idea if your lifestyle (you did vote FF back in the 90′s soo maybe you were part of the Galway tent ) but I think a couple of million is lotto money, do you not ?
@Tony Kennedy: The right were in power and brought disaster same as here. To save their out of control banker buddies.
@Ian Kavanagh:
That is for a senior cabinet minister, this should be a highly paid job with a good pension.
@Nick Allen: so it’s not a lot to pension pit then … even normal TDS that “retired” pretty 2011 walked away with pension pots worth in excess of a million .. you know, the FF ones that you voted for in the 90′s when the party had a stench of corruption.
But hey, work away and have a go at those pesky lefties.
The pied piper for a new Europe ,anyone that challenges the traditional capitalist global structures has my ear .to say we must follow this path and only this path, has resulted in misery and war and death .europe has not yet found the yellow brick road ,all voices should be listened to .capitalist debts socialised .what surprised me most was how the people on the street just accepted it .brought up to conform is not healthy for democracy.dont tell me after the next bust we will be back asking the same question s ,where did it all go wrong .?
@Anthony Gallagher: Exactly.
Oh dear lord.
Does this constitute organization from the LLA? Ha.
Greeks one of of the oldest civilisations in the world..getting along with things just fine,then they get involved in europe and starts using the euro,,now look at them,,the eu only works for big countries like germany,,greek people do not deserve the bs they have been put through
“Movement for Democracy in Europe” the EU will not like that as unelected officials…..
Var doesn’t seem to realise that the problem is the EU…which has embedded neoliberalism into it’s very constitution.
It cannot be reformed from within.
Just another leftist except that Greece is too poor to afford socialism. Caring policies cost other people’s money and there is none.
Cantankerous champagne socialist. Makes a pig’s nipple out of everything he puts his hands on.
Better than Facist puffs!
Considering all that has happened. He is kinda cool.
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