That’s right. You bought Versailles.
Kidding. This is Lyons Demesne (pronounced de-main) in Kildare, home of the late Tipperary-born airline magnate Tony Ryan, who in no way had a Napolean complex.
The Ryan family are selling off the bulk of the house’s art and furniture.
It is being drooled over erotically in today’s Irish Times as “one of Ireland’s finest and most valuable private collection of art and antiques”.
And who are we to argue – sitting, as we are, on a brown corduroy bean bag in Karl’s ‘den’.
So, this is what a lot of money looks like:
Ryanair Heirs To Sell Treasures Of Lyons Estate (Michael Parsons, Irish Times)
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