Celtic Tiger Museum

Interesting set of videos re. pre-Celtic Tiger crash: Prophecies of doom. Should be in #celtictigermuseum? @rdelevan is.gd/TRMq9z

Rusting snack cart by PGA National 10th tee; golf club built to rival K club now in receivership yfrog.com/odd0iepj #celtictigermuseum

Sparkly trout dress circa 2001. Paid for by half me, half former investment banker former boyfriend. #celtictigermuseum yfrog.com/odrbsdsj

Seeing the post on 'The Grange' reminded me of some excellent grafitti on NAMA site hoarding I spotted while in that area...

from the incomparable Suzy Byrne (@suzybie), three posts this evening on the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel's Knuttel-adorned, Taoisigh-themed function rooms:

The 11 taoisigh paintings were bought for 250k in a bidding war no less in 2007 by Louis Fitzgerald for his hotel see here for article from Irish Daily Mirror re sale. They are on display in the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel in Clondalkin. I hear that Louis has commissioned a Cowen subsequently to join them

According to the same Irish Daily Mirror piece, quoth Louis Fitzgerald on the Kunttel subjects: 

"they were all great men"

The Albert Reynolds Room t.co/SJWVBpts

Last pic from the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel. CJH pre #celtictigermuseum t.co/TzpT6azA

The Bertie Ahern painting by G Knuttel in the louis Fitzgerald hotel #celtictigermuseum twitter.com/suzybie/status…

my #celtictigermuseum would consist of a RELIC of a bmw i bought from maxwell motors back in 07. return on investment: -13k.

— julie farrell (@jgalswims) March 23, 2012

@rdelevan it's for sale at whatever I could possibly salvage on it haha twitter.com/jgalswims/stat…

@rdelevan This wd be my personal offering (if you have room) #CelticTigerMuseum youtu.be/G2qjbBaSDa4

— Abie Philbin Bowman (@AbiePB) March 22, 2012

@AbiePB @JoeLeogue think that should be filed away in the celtictigermuseum.com

— Sinéad (@noonansinead) March 22, 2012

Worth quoting Mr O'Connor:

Bertie looked the country in the eye and told us he had not cheated us and I think most people believed him. The details will be pored over again and again no doubt but in essence, since Wednesday, no one really believes Bertie Ahern was corrupt.

I think people looked at him on Wednesday, this rather odd, unknowable, lonely man, whose only vice seemed to be a lust to run the country, and they felt sorry for him and sorry for themselves a bit.

Artefact for #celtictigermuseum: Wedding invitation that said 'No Coast dresses please'. Unfortunately, this artefact is no longer extant.

This should be in the #celtictigermuseum the one that got away!! #bertiebowl twitter.com/kvn2me/status/…

The World Today of BBC World Service this morning ran the Celtic Tiger Museum item in the 'water skiing squirrel' slot just at the end of this morning's programme just before 6am London time.

Presenter Roger Hearing added their own submission! We haven't had a song submitted for the Celtic Tiger Museum just yet, so they've made a suggestion from 'Browny and the Wotsits'. [Who?]

Frankly we're not sure if @PaddyCullivan's songs from the cataclysm might not be a better cut at this theme.:

What song would you add to the Celtic Tiger Museum? 

Angela Phelan's neon pink book "So New York" on shopping in NYC, price tag says I paid €19.99 for this. Hmm.

Subtitle: "...why you'll never pay retail in the Big Apple again"

Ireland's Most Expensive Drink, circa 2004

I think this was about 2004... the Sunday Business Post ran a competition to find the most expensive drink in Ireland and I won by sending in a receipt for two snipes of Moet for €20 each, purchased in The Bailey.