Celtic Tiger Museum

The Bertie Ahern painting by G Knuttel in the louis Fitzgerald hotel #celtictigermuseum twitter.com/suzybie/status…

— Suzy Byrne (@suzybie) March 26, 2012

@AbiePB @JoeLeogue think that should be filed away in the celtictigermuseum.com

— Sinéad (@noonansinead) March 22, 2012

Worth quoting Mr O’Connor:

Bertie looked the country in the eye and told us he had not cheated us and I think most people believed him. The details will be pored over again and again no doubt but in essence, since Wednesday, no one really believes Bertie Ahern was corrupt.

I think people looked at him on Wednesday, this rather odd, unknowable, lonely man, whose only vice seemed to be a lust to run the country, and they felt sorry for him and sorry for themselves a bit.

People could not but help thinking that it was a seedy, dirty, ignominious end, not only for this man who had devoted himself to doing so much for us, but for the whole Bertie era — a time of such confidence and wealth and fun and progress in this country.

This should be in the #celtictigermuseum the one that got away!! #bertiebowl twitter.com/kvn2me/status/…

— KevinTwomey (@kvn2me) March 21, 2012

@Tubridy2FM listeners texted the show with a number of suggestions for #celtictigermuseum on Friday morning:

[maybe a nod to @davidmcw’s Breakfast Roll Man?]

• The most iconic thing has to be the breakfast roll

• Roundabouts - Paddy in Donegal

• Anglo Irish GOLF BALLS [anyone have a pic of one?] 

• Voting machine! Ger

• Berties balls- put them in the Celtic tiger museum!! Mary

• A five hundred euro note, a jumbo breakfast roll, a piece of decking, a bull bar from a 4 wheel drive.

• Hi Dave, how about the high Vis jacket and the breakfast roll? Mick.

• Lines of people queuing up over night to buy an apartment that’s worth nothing now!

• an 06 Range Rover

• Multi trip travel insurance

• Kids with fake tan and false nails arriving in a hummer for their communion would be a good one for the virtual museum.

• The clock in the Liffey

• Things to put in a Celtic tiger museum, an Audi a4 and a Panini and big sunglasses via cover half your face.

• Hi Dave, tickets for a weekend shopping trip to New York should go into that Celtic tiger museum. Ronan  

Thanks @Tubridy2FM and @Davefanningshow for the ideas!

@oceanclub submitted a series of Bertie Ahern pearls of wisdom.