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Cheeky Merkel tricolour sold at auction - The Irish Times - Fri, Jun 22, 2012

A cheeky football banner designed by Irish fans that made headlines across the world has been sold at auction for almost €16,000.
Irish football fans first unveiled the "Angela Merkel Thinks We're At Work" tricolour at Dublin airport earlier this month while en route to Poland for Euro 2012.
The banner went viral on social networking sites before reaching the front page of two Irish national newspapers, the BBC website, US television and even on to Germany's best-selling newspaper, Bild.
The six University of Limerick graduates who uploaded the original picture auctioned the banner on RTÉ radio this morning with all funds raised going to good causes.
The tricolour was won by Antrim-based Glendun Group and Iris R&D, who submitted a joint bid totalling €15,800.
Well-known Dublin pub Copper Face Jacks, who submitted a losing bid, donated a further €5,000.
The funds are to be split between the Children's Medical and Research Foundation in Dublin and the Oscar Appeal, set up to help provide treatment for Oscar Knox, a three-year-old Belfast boy with neuroblastoma, a cancer that develops from nerve tissue.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Fri Jun 22nd, 2012 at 11:16:38 AM EST

UEFA Special Award for Irish Fans (none / 1)

FAI dedicate fans award to memory of James Nolan
(Irish Times) - The father of a young Irishman who drowned while at Euro 2012 has said it is a great honour to have a Uefa award dedicated to his son. James Nolan's father Jimmy thanked Ireland supporters who have been recognised with a special tribute for being the best fans during their short-lived spell at the competition.
"I am deeply touched by this," Mr Nolan said. "It is a great honour and I would like to thank the amazing support that we have received at this difficult time from supporters of Ireland in every part of the world."
Mr Nolan's 21-year-old son drowned in the River Brda in the town of Bydgoszcz in Poland the weekend before Ireland's final match against Italy in Poznan. The engineering student had been travelling with a group of friends and stopped in the town en route to the game when he went missing. His funeral took place earlier this week in Blessington.
Mourners hear of 'one in a million' football fan

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Sun Jul 1st, 2012 at 02:05:09 PM EST
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Re: UEFA Special Award for Irish Fans (none / 1)

He lived just a mile from my home, although I diodn't know him personally. Members of the Irish soccer squad attended his funeral. Soccer is still a community sport in Ireland and not entirely commercialised.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Sun Jul 1st, 2012 at 07:34:08 PM EST
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