Bushy Park, Chris De Burgh’s home in Enniskerry, County Wicklow, now for sale
de Burgh is now parting with the 23,158-square-foot, eight-bedroom home, listing it with Ireland Sotheby’s International Realty for €12.5 million ($14 million).
“There’s no financial need,” he says. “I don’t have to sell this place. I just think it’s too big for two people.”
For Sale: The $14 Million Irish Manor House Paid for by Lady In Red (Bloomberg)
Pics: Sotheby’s
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Ah yeah. I wouldn’t say no to it.
it would take by my calculation 145 years to purge the air of the lingering sense of odious arrogance and self-loving entitlement from that oily cretin’s presence
met him once. felt like scrubbing my skin off afterwards.
A few sprays of Febreze and we’d be laughing.
Oleaginous. People don’t use that word enough.
They do not. Let’s put it back in circulation.
by the way, if i asked you “are you on for repeating the tesco car park bukake incident?”, would that be a bad question or a good question?
Good question.
excellent
monday, 8.30ish
Let’s all pool or resources and buy it.
All right yeah but Don’t Pay The Ferryman is a banger
I’ve gotten all shoulder-jiggly while singing “Don’t even fix a price”.
Jelly bags
Would that process be de-Burghing or de-De-Burghing?
De-Davisoning.
YEAH!
hopp hoop!
Thats a shame. He speaks very highly of you. I’d say he’s devastated hearing that.
Wooden beams?! Over a swimming pool!?
Oh the humanity!
Oh the humidity!
I’m no expert, but the heat and humidity would do weird things to the timber, no?
Sauna’s in scandanavia seem to manage alright
surely he’d be more worried about the heat and humidity melting his wife and daughter
I like that. Can you now swipe the claws at Bono?
Could you be less unhappy?
do you want some time to think again about “less unhappy”?
No thanks. Need some hugs?
It is very common.
Relatively uncommon, I’d imagine, what with it being a stupid idea.
You don’t know what you’re talking about: https://architizer.com/blog/practice/details/freemens-school-pool/
I’m not going to read that.
Glulam’s one thing, you can use a moisture resistant adhesive and impregnate the layers with dessicants and preservatives. Chris has solid timber.
The resolution of the photos is not high enough to say they are solid timbre.
Jesus George you’re hard work
Go to Bloomberg, they have the pictures in higher res.
entirely tastelessly done gaff
which is weird because if youre at all familiiar with his music and how he comports himself in general, that’s not at all what you would expect, is it
Comment of the Day.
How many Spotify royalty streams would it take to buy that?
Dunno. You could buy 10 of them if you won the Euromillions tomorrow.
Ready.. ready… ready?… right now! hit pause! *click* Titanic baby, that’ll add 100K no probs
“Other improvements included … a panic room with two-inch thick steel doors and a communications hookup.“
Very handy for when the missus is checking your phone for sexts with the nanny, I’d imagine.
Also, if he does get €12.5m for the house and 27 acres, he’ll be just about able to afford five flats in Ringsend.
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2019/06/06/how-much-184
Why so nasty Eoin?
Patricia the Stripper preformed by drag queen Veda who forgot to shave or clip is an all time favourite of mine.
I was shocked, not that you could tell as I was botoxed back then.
I really enjoyed that story Queenie
One day Keats was regaling Chapman with an account of De Burgh’s career:
Apparently on one occasion just before a concert De Burgh developed a callus on a finger and couldn’t play the piano. His quick-thinking agent called Phil Coulter and asked him to step in at the ivories.
However Coulter didn’t know De Burgh’s material as well as he might and the concert wasn’t a great success.
The following day, De Burgh called his accountant and instructed him;
“Don’t pay the Derry man”.
That is brutal.
Thing is, next time someone asks me to tell a joke, that monstrosity will be all I can think of.
As long as royalties accrue.
Perhaps you’re not familiar with the oeuvre of Messrs Keats and Chapman?
Correct. I’ve never read anything by him. I don’t have any reason: he just doesn’t appeal. I’m not a fan of whimsy in books: I’ve a feeling that’s his style.
Of course he watches Titanic
Saw this earlier and now have some odd dance remix of Lady In Red in my head.
Was that even ever a thing??
Ah fair play to the lad. He’s done well and I’m sure many Germans have visited here because of him.
Could the state buy it and designate it as the official residence of the Taoiseach? Every morning on rising for work the Taoiseach would have a view of rural Ireland and not forget to budget a few million towards the development of Ireland beyond the pale.
Maybe Millie ‘ll buy it
From her €uro milliens win
And donate it
Or set up the Oul’ Bloggards Trust and Care Home for us
Whatever
I’d say she’ll take ov’ us anyway
yeah, Enniskerry is the real heartland of rural Ireland.