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Mr Tayto's* Killiney mansion is up for grabs

*Well, the creator of Tayto at least. Isn’t he Mr Tayto, technically?

THIS SIX-BEDROOM LATE Victorian home on Killiney Avenue is the former home of Joe Murphy, the creator of the Tayto crisp.

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Laragh House, Killiney Avenue, Killiney, Co Dublin is for sale for €2,450,000 with Hunters Estate Agent via Daft.ie.

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The house was extensively renovated and restored in 2001 and has retained many of its original period features such as sash windows, timber shutters and fireplaces.

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Entering the property, there is a formal drawing room with a period chimney piece and bay windows and which connects to a music room with views of the Dublin mountains.

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There is a library with timber floors, and large windows as well as the formal dining room with a butler’s pantry and access to the rear courtyard.

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The kitchen has hand-crafted fitted timber wall and floor units with black granite worktops and is connected to the breakfast/dining room.

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Also on this level is a double bedroom, a large utility room and two ancillary rooms as well as a wine cellar and an Egyptian-themed sauna.

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Upstairs there are five double bedrooms, all with period features and fireplaces with marble surrounds. The master bedroom is en-suite and has a large bay window.

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The property is on almost an acre of land with landscaped Italianate gardens, a terraced area and a summer house.

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Laragh House, Killiney Avenue, Killiney, Co Dublin is for sale with Hunters Estate Agent via Daft.ie

Read: This 1940s Edwardian-style house is a grand family home

Also: This modern Dublin development comes with Georgian-influenced grandeur

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    Nov 20th 2015, 1:55 PM

    Police officer Mark Kennedy should have seen this coming

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    Nov 20th 2015, 1:58 PM

    Looks like he was watching it from the corner of his eye alright

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:08 PM

    He always keeps one eye on the goal…

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    Mute Stephen Devlin
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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:25 PM

    Looks like my eyes behind my sunglasses when on holidays with the wife

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:52 PM

    I see what you all did there ….and there

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    Nov 20th 2015, 3:20 PM

    He`d be a great look out on a busy street corner, both roads covered, Hate to see him with a gun though.

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    Mute Bob Freeman
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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:05 PM

    One of his eyes is still undercover

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:23 PM

    His wife always suspected he had a wandering eye

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:40 PM

    Women have been used as spies for years and they entered in sexual relationships with men to get information. Hmmmm. So decit in this type of situation is only a problem when it’s the woman being deceived!!!

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    Nov 20th 2015, 3:21 PM

    Thing is Catkins, you wouldn`t hear too many blokes complaining

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:24 PM

    Filling out paperwork must have been tough. Especially when he kept dotting the t’s and crossing the i’s

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    Nov 20th 2015, 1:53 PM

    Why were they infiltrating protest groups?

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    Mute Warai Aoi
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    Nov 20th 2015, 8:44 PM

    To get into leadership positions and turn them into violent organisations so the rest of the police could send in Thatcher’s skull smashers. Entrapment comes to mind (and rape in the case of these rapist policemen).

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    Nov 20th 2015, 8:47 PM

    Seriously the mincers on the copper?

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    Mute JayK
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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:02 PM

    Remember the girl who got 8 years for lying about being a boy?

    http://www.thejournal.ie/gayle-newland-court-case-sentenced-2441381-Nov2015/

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    Mute Anne Marie Devlin
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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:27 PM

    was thinking the same jayk. Has the potential to redefine the concept of rape if one party consents as a result of deception

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:35 PM

    If a bloke tells a girl he loves her to get her into bed does that count as deception too?

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    Nov 20th 2015, 8:22 PM

    If a woman marries a man for his money, is that rape?

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Nov 20th 2015, 10:18 PM

    More importantly, is it a valid consent?

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:38 PM

    How did he put up with the smell?

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:23 PM

    Yeah those environmental protesters are the real threat to people’s lives unlike IS who only threaten big business/government development plans.

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    Nov 20th 2015, 3:47 PM

    They should make a calender.. for the bosseyed

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    Nov 20th 2015, 1:53 PM

    Happens here a lot too – and not just Dublin.

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    Nov 20th 2015, 1:56 PM

    How do you know?

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    Mute Ger Comings
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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:01 PM

    Because I know an undercover detective who was ‘married’ three times – in three different counties/with different names – with the sole aim of infiltrating gangland/terrorist families and organisations.

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:02 PM

    He was very good at undercover so.

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:04 PM

    *wasnt

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:07 PM

    I call bullshit on this !!!!!!

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:25 PM

    Call it what you want – but it goes on everywhere!

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    Nov 20th 2015, 5:13 PM

    So he was a successful under cover detective that managed to infiltrate terrorist AND gangland organisations, presumably one of the handest tasks imaginable, and he told you all about it so you could tell everyone on the Journal about it? That seems plausible!!!

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:17 PM

    Special Demonstration Unit -aptly named anyway!

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    Nov 20th 2015, 4:55 PM

    These guys were sent,undercover,into these organisations to encourage violence and vandalism and thus allow once peaceful members to be arrested,charged and convicted, thus denying their cause any legitimacy. It is a tactic dating back to union busting in the US 100 years ago.

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:33 PM

    Looking at his photo- he naturally has a wandering eye.

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:14 PM

    When obliged to give evidence, this chaps do it ‘in camera’ – or behind screens – to protect their anonymity. Voices are distorted digitally – the same as in NI, mainland UK and virtually all EU countries.

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    Nov 20th 2015, 2:29 PM

    Is that Zig or Zag??

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    Nov 20th 2015, 5:16 PM

    Every undercover cop in the movies does this. Sounds a lot more boring when u read about it. And a lot more creepy.

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    Nov 20th 2015, 9:23 PM

    James Bond is shitting him self

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    Nov 20th 2015, 7:32 PM

    Read the article and this song keeps playing in my head… Karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon….

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    Nov 20th 2015, 7:07 PM

    He’d have one eye looking at you & the other one looking for you

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    Nov 20th 2015, 8:41 PM

    These men are being shielded from rape charges by the Met because they are policemen.

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    Nov 20th 2015, 8:18 PM

    Seriously the bleeding eye on him

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