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GRANNY’S HOUSE, A popular art installation that features at Electric Picnic, has been stolen.
The yellow and pink coloured house – with an old TV and framed photo of the Pope – has been a favorite of festival goers looking to escape from the madness.
The house features every year as part of Art Lot – a dedicated space at Electric Picnic that is curated by Dublin art collective The Glow Depot.
John Kenny from The Glow Depot told TheJournal.ie that Granny’s House “became a sanctuary for people escaping the madness of the festival”.
I think one person last year spent most of the weekend asleep in the armchair.
He explained that they discovered it was stolen last week when they went to pick it up.
It wouldn’t have a huge monetary value but a lot of effort went into it and whoever took it would have needed a trailer and a few people.
Kenny added that there would be no animosity towards anybody who returned the house.
There’s a good chance someone saw it and is using it as a garden shed, there would be no animosity towards that, in fact we would buy them a new garden shed.
“We’d have a laugh about it – we haven’t reported it to the gardaí or anything like that.”
People are being asked to get in touch with The Glow Depot on Facebook if there are any sightings of the house.
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Maybe the new sponsor will be TOYOTA.. They’ll only need another “O”
@zebadie: he owns tayto. Crisps as well as tayto park
@zebadie: he owns tayto. Crisps as well as tayto park
@zebadie: he owns tayto. Crisps as well as tayto park
@frank griffin: not anymore and not for some time….please be informed before making such things
@zebadie: I say say Tayto, you say Toyota
@zebadie: humm self paying park that doesn’t need visitors to turn a profit
So can we just all agree it should be renamed to Parky McParkface?
Whatever the outcome im sure it will be Hunky Dory….
It should be called Fianna Fáil park. They are taking us all for a ride for many years now.
@James Beattie: Living rent free in your head.
@Daniel Roche: ‘rent free’ you say. The irony of your comment. Rents have gone through the roofs because of neglect and greed of FF and FG.
@James Beattie: What’s that got to do with crisps, James?
@Richie Cosgrove: revert to my initial comment, good lad
@James Beattie: admission fee to be paid in a brown envelope in the car park?
@James Beattie: or sinn fein Park, all the rides will be free.
@John Mulligan: That’s lame. Think about it, though. Do you really think this circus should just continue forever? Cos unless you vote them out, that’s all you get. But ever still so progressively worse. Heads need to roll for decades of incompetence, inaction and greed that continue to push new boundaries every day.
That’s a shame. I’d say they made a packet from it over the years all the same.
sad that something as Irish as tayto isn’t even Irish owned
@Sean Stevenson: it is Irish owned
@michael walsh: No ze Germans own it.
@michael walsh: Intersnack. German owned. Bought out Largo Foods
@James Rock: — The Tayto brand in NI isn’t owned by Intersnack, it’s still out on its own. I don’t know which of the two sponsored the park.
@Sean Stevenson: Neither is Guinness sure…
@Sean Stevenson: Aer Lingus
So can we just all agree it should rename to Parky McParkface?
@Simon Murdoch: So YOU are Parky McParkface
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@Noel Donohue:
Hit a nerve?
@Noel Donohue: are you for real?
Lidl are buying it and calling it Okey Dokey Park
Please please please let it be Jurassic Park!
I heard Tayto Pk burnt down last night!
Burnt to a crisp!
Ah them theme parks always end up as mickey mouse operations anyways
That zoo is terrible for the animal welfare. Never going back again
We are excited to rebrand as “Tae Toe Park”.
Pringle Park sounds better……
Last time I was there I parked in the Itchy lot
Hoping they rename it : Morbeg land…
Walkers Park
Spud Park. Ask the Murphys to run it.
I thought the name was a little stale.
Barry’s Tea Park? Kerrygold Park? The Happy Pear Park? ……..
Meanies and Batch Bread Park
Walkers next? ” A Walkers in the park “
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