The set up…

DUBLIN’S BURLINGTON Hotel, bought by property developer Bernard McNamara at the peak of the property boom in 2007 for €288 million, is back on the market with a guide price of €65-€75 million.

Mr McNamara has been one of the biggest casualties of the property crash with overall debts of €1.5 billion.

And now. The punchline…

Paul Collins, of CBRE Hotels, said yesterday there had been a remarkable recovery in the Dublin hotel market, and city hotels were now among the best-performing in Europe.

Beautiful.

Burlington Hotel on market for one-quarter of 2007 price (Jack Fagan, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Relax.

It’s not really happening.

Or is it?

YOU decide!

From Reddy who writes:

The music industry reaches giddy new heights in its battle for the soul of music lovers everywhere.

 Hmm.

Ewok’s bringing his Stockton’s Wing bootleg cassettes just in case. Damn Fuzz.

The Gruesome Twosome: The Convo.

Taken from the album All Systems Are Unstable, available as a free download here. Directed by Brian Fortune; Continuity & VFX assistant Maeve Brosnan; Filmed in The Twisted Pepper, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin.

Loudmouth Productions

Thanks MT

They brought it over from the Fair City set.

RTE’s John Kenny Darren Frehill (left) with, from left, Ireland’s Jason Smyth, Michael Mckillop and Mark Rohan at the Paralympic Village in London this afternoon.

Via John Kenny

Ireland (LondonParalympics2012)

 

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