More cash for Mary Robinson, ca ching.

Jimmy Garlic

Was reading there that Mayo CC just bought her run down old gaff in Ballina for 660k . Not bad for an unloved old townhouse in Ballina I thought. Do Mayo CC not have anything more worthwhile they can go spending other people's money on? The only thing I can see the proposed Mary Robinson museum turning out to be is a temporary cure for insomnia.

Sonny noggs

Maybe her friend, yer wan from Abu Dabby or wherever can live there. The princess al bint or something.

A bonfire of money. What about putting that outlay to practical use, say maintenance of local amenities.

Roger Hassenforder

I thought €600k should get you Ballina...

kneemos

You get to sit in the actual chair that Mary sat in,and see where she ate breakfast.

NasserShammaz

kneemos wrote: »

You get to sit in the actual chair that Mary sat in,and see where she ate breakfast.

"The elders "

My arse , how detatched from the real world is this woman now

Phoebas

The house is where she grew up, but she doesn't own it now, so the basis of this thread title makes no sense.

Roger Hassenforder

kneemos wrote: »

You get to sit in the actual chair that Mary sat in,and see where she ate breakfast.

I can see Ryanair having to out on extra flights to Knock. It'll be a tourist draw like Disneyland Paris.

jippo nolan

I remember being treated for a nefarious dose of the “nobby stiles” in that establishment in the early mid seventies!

Sonny noggs

NasserShammaz wrote: »

"The elders "

My arse , how detatched from the real world is this woman now

Now? Always was. This is the one who resigned as president to take up another job.

Gatling

So they bought large townhouse and several offices connected to it to transform into a library.


Booohoooo


Former President Mary Robinson’s childhood home in Ballina, Co Mayo, has been bought by Mayo County Council after years of negotiations.

Work is to begin in November this year on transforming Victoria House, which was owned by Ms Robinson’s brother Adrian Bourke, into the Mary Robinson Centre, a US-style presidential library.

It is understood the property sold for about €600,000.

Brendan Mulroy, Cathaoirleach of Mayo County Council, told the Irish Times the purchase represented “a good day for Mayo”.

“Mary Robinson was the president of our country obviously, and being a Mayo woman, she made a big difference to the country as a whole, in challenging times,” he said.

“From Mayo County Council’s point of view, purchasing the house is a step forward and holding on to a piece of history at the same time.”

Mr Mulroy estimated that it had taken the council around five years to secure the purchase, for what will become Ireland’s first presidential library, similar to other institutions dedicated to ex-presidents in the US.

Almost two years ago, the council was understood to be offering around €510,000 for the property in which Ms Robinson grew up, and neighbouring offices, both of which were owned by Mr Bourke.

The high horse brigade

I don't see what all the outrage is about tbh

Portsalon

Gatling wrote: »

So they bought large townhouse and several offices connected to it to transform into a library.

I wonder how much the unfortunate ratepayers of County Mayo will now have to fork out to pay for the "transformation"?

Sonny noggs

The high horse brigade wrote: »

I don't see what all the outrage is about tbh

What outrage?

The high horse brigade

Sonny noggs wrote: »

What outrage?

Some of the posts here even describing it as a bonfire of money

Portsalon

The high horse brigade wrote: »

I don't see what all the outrage is about tbh

I suppose it all depends on how valuable to posterity you consider the collected scribblings of Mary Robinson to be.

Personally, I'd have advised Mayo County Council to have lashed out €5,000 on an industrial sized paper shredder, and to re-cycle the resulting tonnes of waste paper. A much better outcome both for the planet and for the ratepayers of Mayo!

Sonny noggs

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Some of the posts here even describing it as a bonfire of money

A turn of phrase, no outrage here that I can see.

Gatling

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Some of the posts here even describing it as a bonfire of money

Obviously from posters who have bought Victorian era town houses and transformed them into libraries

Portsalon

Gatling wrote: »

Obviously from posters who have bought Victorian era town houses - using other peoples' money - and transformed them into libraries - again, using other peoples' money!

Edited for accuracy.

Gatling

Portsalon wrote: »

Edited for accuracy.

Typical newly registered response not very accurate at .

Cost is 1.5 million tell us how many council houses could have been bought for that

Portsalon

Gatling wrote: »

Typical newly registered response not very accurate at .

Cost is 1.5 million tell us how many council houses could have been bought for that

I'll leave the red herrings to you.

Simple fact is that the elected buffoons of Mayo Co Co have decided to commit large amounts of ratepayers' funds to a vanity project of little architectural, cultural or political merit.

Res ipsa loquitur.

tabby aspreme

The whole project supposed to cost 5.1 million, 2017 figures, 1.5m Mayo CC, 2m Josepha Madigan's dept, 1.5m philanthropic donations.
Mary said it was mildly annoying that people had a problem with spending this kind of money on her archive.

Jimmy Garlic

Portsalon wrote: »

I'll leave the red herrings to you.

Simple fact is that the elected buffoons of Mayo Co Co have decided to commit large amounts of ratepayers' funds to a vanity project of little architectural, cultural or political merit.

Res ipsa loquitur.

It is also going to be a shrine for gender equality and climate change apparently.

sabat

I would have presumed that all documents pertaining to the presidency are the property of the state and should be in our archive, not hers. Anything related to her career outside of Irish public life is her own business and should be 100% funded by herself, especially since she so publicly denigrated our highest office so she could advance her career.

Portsalon

sabat wrote: »

I would have presumed that all documents pertaining to the presidency are the property of the state and should be in our archive, not hers. Anything related to her career outside of Irish public life is her own business and should be 100% funded by herself, especially since she so publicly denigrated our highest office so she could advance her career.

But surely signed samples of her lavender scented toilet paper fully deserve a taxpayer-funded shrine to rival the pyramids?

Indeed, I'm a tad surprised that Mayo County Council haven't (yet) decided to rename both the Monsignor Horan Interplanetary Airport and the Marian Shrine at Knock after Her Imperial Royal Highness, the Big Bird of Ballina!

Odhinn

sabat wrote: »

I would have presumed that all documents pertaining to the presidency are the property of the state and should be in our archive, not hers. Anything related to her career outside of Irish public life is her own business and should be 100% funded by herself, especially since she so publicly denigrated our highest office so she could advance her career.

She, by all a/c's' has an ego the size of a planet.

Jimmy Garlic

sabat wrote: »

I would have presumed that all documents pertaining to the presidency are the property of the state and should be in our archive, not hers. Anything related to her career outside of Irish public life is her own business and should be 100% funded by herself, especially since she so publicly denigrated our highest office so she could advance her career.

She said recently that Kofi Annan "bullied" her into taking up the position. Convenient that he was dead and couldn't contradict that statement.

Portsalon

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

She said recently that Kofi Annan "bullied" her into taking up the position. Convenient that he was dead and couldn't contradict that statement.

Remarkable, nay incredible, that a feminist pin-up like Dispora Mary would have allowed herself to be bullied by a mere male.

Harry Palmr

I'm sure the denizens of Ballina are happy that 8 million euro of the tax payers money is going on this marginal vanity project rather than into something useful.

































Like a refuge for Arabian Gulf princesses.

Roger Hassenforder

sabat wrote: »

I would have presumed that all documents pertaining to the presidency are the property of the state and should be in our archive, not hers. Anything related to her career outside of Irish public life is her own business and should be 100% funded by herself, especially since she so publicly denigrated our highest office so she could advance her career.

Was the token payment offered by the state for said scribblings considered derisory, and NUIG instead benefited?

Jimmy Garlic

Harry Palmr wrote: »

I'm sure the denizens of Ballina are happy that 8 million euro of the tax payers money is going on this marginal vanity project rather than into something useful.

Like a refuge for Arabian Gulf princesses.

Doubt many from Ballina are interested in a temple to Mary Robinson. The cost of it however is another matter, 8.5 million is the latest figure I saw. It will be ten million before we know it. And for what?

Phoebas

Phoebas wrote: »

The house is where she grew up, but she doesn't own it now, so the basis of this thread title makes no sense.

Interesting. Who owns it and what connection does he/she have to the person in Mayo CC who decided to pay €600,000 for a run-down house in Mayo?

Roger Hassenforder

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Interesting. Who owns it and what connection does he/she have to the person in Mayo CC who decided to pay €600,000 for a run-down house in Mayo?

Is it her brother selling it?

tuxy

So how much is this house worth?

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x48593791995d0b4d:0x442958cd1454bfa1!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4s/maps/place/victoria%2Bhouse%2Bballina/@54.113515,-9.1521474,3a,75y,335.69h,90t/data%3D*213m4*211e1*213m2*211sF4UYYjQLPJTdNuwHgjs8JQ*212e0*214m2*213m1*211s0x48593791995d0b4d:0x442958cd1454bfa1?sa%3DX!5svictoria+house+ballina+-+Google+Search&imagekey=!1e2!2sF4UYYjQLPJTdNuwHgjs8JQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUrsHu7efjAhXgQxUIHSXLD1IQpx8wDHoECAwQBg

Gatling

Gatling wrote: »

Typical newly registered response not very accurate at .

Cost is 1.5 million tell us how many council houses could have been bought for that

About 30 houses in Ballina, according to a quick Daft search here.

That's a lot of families.

Jimmy Garlic

tuxy wrote: »

So how much is this house worth?

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x48593791995d0b4d:0x442958cd1454bfa1!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4s/maps/place/victoria%2Bhouse%2Bballina/@54.113515,-9.1521474,3a,75y,335.69h,90t/data%3D*213m4*211e1*213m2*211sF4UYYjQLPJTdNuwHgjs8JQ*212e0*214m2*213m1*211s0x48593791995d0b4d:0x442958cd1454bfa1?sa%3DX!5svictoria+house+ballina+-+Google+Search&imagekey=!1e2!2sF4UYYjQLPJTdNuwHgjs8JQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUrsHu7efjAhXgQxUIHSXLD1IQpx8wDHoECAwQBg

Be lucky to get 80k for it in the real world given how run down it obviously is and the prices in Ballina.

Portsalon

Odhinn wrote: »

She, by all a/c's, has an ego the size of a planet.

Ah, but are we talking Pluto or Jupiter here?

Help!!!!

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Was reading there that Mayo CC just bought her run down old gaff in Ballina for 660k . Not bad for an unloved old townhouse in Ballina I thought. Do Mayo CC not have anything more worthwhile they can go spending other people's money on? The only thing I can see the proposed Mary Robinson museum turning out to be is a temporary cure for insomnia.

I'm sure there wont be any 'brown envelopes' passed to members of the CC;);)

Odhinn

Portsalon wrote: »

Ah, but are we talking Pluto or Jupiter here?

More Jupiter than Pluto. Likes working for the 'good of the people', not gone on the 'the people' themselves in person. No time for northern nationalists at all.

blinding

kneemos wrote: »

You get to sit in the actual chair that Mary sat in,and see where she ate breakfast.

The seat where Mary Farted . What an Honour .

Yurt2

Mary Robinson gives me the creeps. There's just something about her.

I'm sure all the junkets that Mayo County Councillors went on off the back of this project will be rewarded with throngs of visitors to this most important attraction.

She could have just donated her papers to an Irish University with minimum fuss.

blinding

How much more dosh that can that bint soak up ? ?

ohnonotgmail

blinding wrote: »

How much more dosh that can that bint soak up ? ?

well none of this cash anyway as she didnt own the house.

blinding

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

well none of this cash anyway as she didnt own the house.

Family Soak-age .

TheChizler

Yurt! wrote: »

She could have just donated her papers to an Irish University with minimum fuss.

Looks like that's exactly what she did: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/irish-news/mary-robinson-i-wont-avail-of-1-2m-tax-credit-35252957.html

CrankyHaus

The voters of Mayo need to ask their elected representatives exactly why they decided to give Mary Robinson's brother so much money for the house and why taxpayers should be supporting her vanity project at all. If Mayo County Councillors think this is an appropriate use of public funds then you have to disabuse them of that notion at the polling booth.

Yurt2

TheChizler wrote: »

Looks like that's exactly what she did: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/irish-news/mary-robinson-i-wont-avail-of-1-2m-tax-credit-35252957.html

Fair enough didn't realize that. She still gives me the creeps however.

blinding

Mary has far more in common with the Healy-Raes than would seem apparent at first glance .

She sure knows how to ride the Gravy Trains .