Blame........Mayo!

Super-Rush

Checkpoint Charlie was once the hottest spot in the Cold War, with tense standoffs between US and Soviet tanks. Now a popular tourist destination, the site has for eight years witnessed a different kind of stand-off – between Irish developers and the city of Berlin.
After years idling under Irish control, the site of Berlin’s infamous border crossing between East and West Berlin has reportedly been sold to a German developer at a €58 million profit for the National Assets Management Agency (Nama)
The two undeveloped sites total 9,000sq m on either side of Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse. They were offloaded by Mayo’s Cannon brothers for a reported €85 million, according to Bloomberg, to Trockland Management.

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So this is the real reason Angela Merkel has been squeezing our collective balls.

Fuck you Mayo. They were right when they said 'to hell or to Connaught'.

fleet_admiral

LEAVE HELLMANS ALONE!!

StupidLikeAFox

The 58m profit doesn't sound too bad

BoJack Horseman

So Ireland made some cash flogging a site in Berlin.

Fine.

moleyv

My memory of checkpoint Charlie is that there is a McDonalds there with a balcony

MayoForSam

Ah come on, give us a break.

Birneybau

MayoForSam wrote: »

Ah come on, give us a break.

Break for the border, wha'?

Lucifer MorningStar

Ruu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc

Oh, your talking about Mayo...well then..

SEPT 23 1989

ygolometsipe

Super-Rush wrote: »

Fuck you Mayo. They were right when they said 'to hell or to Connaught'.

A county is a geographical entity and not a person.
It cannot be ****ed.

The_Valeyard

So.....could we not have put the checkpoint back and charged the germans a few bob to cross? I dont know, say.......87 billion?

Aongus Von Bismarck

I've always found it interesting how many of the large developers and property speculators who found themselves in NAMA came from such relatively humble backgrounds. A piece in the Sunday Times a few years back showed Connacht with just over 1/8th of the population of Ireland, but with over 50% of the NAMA 'victims' having come from there. Many of them came from farming backgrounds and had no 3rd level qualifications.

As an aside, it looks like NAMA will go down as a good idea in terms of how Ireland managed the recession.

The Diabolical Monocle

ygolometsipe wrote: »

A county is a geographical entity and not a person.
It cannot be ****ed.

Challenge accepted.


Trowel !!

ColeTrain

The black hand of Mayo controls The Dail and has plenty of influence in Germany. Only a matter of time before The White House falls in line..

TheLastMohican

Mayo? God help us!