From top: Loughton House, Dr James Reilly
For those of us who wondered how did Dr James Reilly sleep at night when he was minister for health at a time when our health service was so woefully and devastatingly inept, the question was answered in your newspaper.
He slept exceptionally well on a deep feather mattress in a “royal, carved-oak, sleigh bed made for King George IV’s visit to Ireland” in a 13-bedroom, 1,393sq m (15,000sq ft) Georgian mansion. And how did he relieve the stresses of his day? Chopping logs on his 82-acre estate.
Eimear Morhan,
Drumcondra,
Dublin 9.
James Reilly’s big estate (Irish Times letters page)
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incredible house and history, looks like they dietary lot of renovation too.
eat the rich.
* winces *
*minces*
grinces
finches
Blue tit
Savages
So what?
The implication is the health service would have been improved if Reilly was sleeping on an inflatable matress in a council house in Jobstown. Seems unlikely to me.
no, the implication is that he lives like an emperor and has no clue what actual life is like for the rest of us
don’t try and explain it to the blushirt, they can’t see beyond their blu tinted glasses.
Great to see begrudgery living on…
So what?
Starina, he does not actually live there, never did! Hard to fathom but there you go.
so….he just kept it for spare parts??
You never know when you’ll need a bit of two by four.
The implication I’d take is that Reilly is so smug he sees nothing wrong with an austerity-era politician flaunting his wealth in a national newspaper. Another giant ego like Charlie, John O’Donoghue etc.
I for one wouldnt sleep well unless I knew our ‘betters’ appeared wealthy
Well we dont just appear it, we are wealthy. You can sleep well now.
good serf, here have some scraps from the eleites’ table
There is an air of begrudgery about this. He bought before he was a TD and was, from the outside anyway, a successful businessman, GP and president of the IMO. The fact that he was an inept health minister and, as it turns out, businessman as well if his nursing homes were anything to do by, is irrelevant. No idea how he affords the upkeep on it. I guess if he is selling it, he can’t.
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Check out the original article.
The writer sneaked this piece of pure gold into it.
“But there’s still a lot of work to be done. A forlornly empty swimming pool, installed by the previous owner, badly needs a Rio Olympics-style refill to keep the recovery going.”
I may not be a fan of Reilly, but who ever wrote that is a spanner.
Yes, Reilly is Reilly (god help us), but this offering is just dreck.
Bet he had a dog called ISIS too.
Hah! Excellent.
Have you watched Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes yet?
Some of the houses make Downton Abbey look like a bedsit.
That programme sends me to my happy place.
It’s unbelievable, hard to believe the sheer opulence and costs involved.
Sounds lovely, but I bet that bed is as noisy as hell,
If you’re tossing and turning, or up to other shenanigans, (get a good mental picture of Reilly up to that sorta thing) you’d wake the house with all the creaking.
Typical banker 1% roobing all the money for themselfs.