httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgf_z99m5Ko#video
Walford, Shrewsbury Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Purchased By Sean Dunne and Gayle Killilea for the record Irish price of €58 million in 2005.
It is being offered for sale by tender on October 27th with a guide price of €15 million – “just shy of 75 per cent below what it made six years ago,” as Iris Keating of Savills noted…
…Built in 1902, the Tudor-style Edwardian house was occupied by the same family, the Duggans, for 50 years prior to its spectacular sale in mid-2005. A brochure from that time shows that it was elegantly furnished and had two 18th-century marble fireplaces in the main reception rooms.
But the fireplaces were taken by thieves while Walford stood vacant for the past six years and there isn’t a stick of furniture in the house now. Black-and-white marble-effect linoleum in the entrance hall has gone too, leaving just the concrete floor, and all of the rooms have bare wooden floors and stripped walls; this is Bleak House.
Inside Ireland’s Most Expensive House (Frank McDonald, Irish Times)
UPDATE: The Irish Times has disabled the video. They don’t understand how the internets works and it frustrates them so.