Charity Bet Update

A few months ago when the first few names were being bandied about for the Luas Bridge we contact Paddy Power and asked if they'd be interested in placing a charity bet on the possibly outcome of the process.

They were more than obliging and we placed two €50 bets. One on Rosie Hacket at 4/1 and one on Ernest Walton at 10/1

With Rosie Hacket being the winning choice and a very popular one at that the good people at Paddy Power forked out €250 which we donated to the even better people at Womens Aid.

Charity Bridge Bet Update

So we're getting excited our charity bet is heating up only a few more weeks till we find out who the winner is.

We have €50 on Rosie Hacket at 4/1 and she is one of the finalists.

Also included is:

Willie Bermingham, founder of the Alone charity

Frank Duff, founder of the Legion of Mary

Camogie player Kay Mills

Novelist Bram Stoker

Sadly Ernest Walton didn't make it so we are in for Rosie for the win! A council meeting will decide in September whose name gets the nod. Finger crossed. 

Charity Bet on the New Luas Bridge Name

With thanks to Paddy Power and to coincide with the announced shortlist of possible names for the new Luas bridge, we have placed 2 charity bets on which name will be chosen for the new bridge.

We put €50 on Rosie Hacket at 4/1 and €50 on Ernest Walton at 10/1.

Why we chose these two?

Rosie Hackett was an incredible woman who was instrumental in the setting up of Irish trade Unions. She was on the streets during the 1913 lockout and was also involved in the 1916 Rising. Given that it is the 100 year anniversary of the 1913 lockout and we are a matter of years away from the 100 year anniversary of the 1916 uprising, she would seem to be a perfect fit. It's also high time a bridge over the liffey was named after a woman.

Ernest Walton, this is a really good shout, he has changed the world, good and bad. He was the first to split the atom, thus creating atomic energy and went and won himself a Nobel Prize for physics, the only Irish person to do so. We celebrate our writers we should also celebrtae our scientists.

Here's the full list of names and the odds from paddypower.com

Rosie Hackett 4/1
Jonathan Swift 10/1
The Returned Home 20/1
Kay Mills 5/1
WB Yeats 12/1
The Patriots Bridge 25/1
James Connolly 6/1
Oscar Wilde 12/1
Frank Duff 25/1
Abbey Theatre Bridge 8/1
Lady Gregory 16/1
Tony Gregory 33/1
Willie Bermingham 8/1
George Sigerson 16/1
James Plunkett 33/1
Ernest Walton 10/1
Bram Stoker 16/1

Who would you put your money on?