Ireland revealed as Michael's Sanctuary
So I know that you have been getting alot of sightings in Ireland...but I don't know if you know this but Jermaine Jackson had recently tweeted about visiting Ireland a while ago. I don't know but to me it seems like more than a coincidence. Just thought I let someone know.
Thanks for all the sighting you have posted up  P.s. Then information can be found on tweet under jermjackson5. And also can you post a couple more of those Ireland sightings please. Thanks so much. Love Lexnoelle
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"I would like some way to disappear where people don't see me anymore at some point," ... "I don't want to grow old. I never want to look in the mirror and see that"
Michael
Jackson's older brother Jermaine has revealed that Ireland was always
Michael's place to escape the maddness of his crazy life.
Jermaine told the press that he absolurely loved it there and spent
much time in the castles. He said Michael found it very green,
beatiful and peaceful.
recently i read that michael was house hunting in ireland and mainly in a hide away counties of wicklow and cork!
and suposidly he has been spotted in Dublin Airport with two men and a woman!
michael has always had a facination with ireland and mythology!
the king is here! BD Wednesday, July 1, 2009
"Sharon" claims that Michael Jackson is staying in Cork under an assumed name with the initials A.H.
The first picture was taken of Michael fleeing the US and the second is his possible new home in Ireland. Why Ireland ?
Something we reported almost a year ago has recently shown up in the major news services. Michael Loves Ireland. He would often escape there to get away from the media maddness elsewhere. Jackson told reporters: “Ireland has inspired me to make a great album. I have never given up on making music.” Michael often stayed at the Grouse Lodge or he would relax in Co Wicklow. He he paid €30,000 per week to stay at Luggala Castle for three months.
Michael often said he wanted to move to Ireland permanently, and that he even spent time house-hunting in Co Cork.
Psychic Randa Starr,claims that Michael's fascination with Ireland stems from his interest in fairies and leprechauns. There were even rumours that Michael had plans to build an Irish-themed leprechaun theme park. In March this year, many of Jackson's personal items were auctioned off in Co Kildare.
I do not believe he is dead, so do not post this at Forest Lawn. I think he is in Ireland,
and if you are I would love to be with you. I spoke with you online a
few months before your so called death and you were looking for a place
to buy in Ireland and I told you I was looking for ancestory on the
site. So if you are alive, look me up and please go get your children
and love them everyday for the rest of their lives, as they seem very
lost without you.
Q. Full Name:
R. Vickie
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The following report was found in The Observer (gaurdian.co.uk):
Even in the context of the bizarre, twisted fairy tale of Michael Jackson's life, the time he spent living in a converted cowshed in rural Ireland shortly before he died takes some believing. But in the summer of 2006, after his acquittal in the previous year's court case, having left Neverland and spent some time in Bahrain, the King of Pop secretly arrived in County Westmeath with his children. Relieved he had found a sanctuary away from the paparazzi and enchanted by an area so rich in history, myth and folklore, Jackson ended up staying for the rest of the year.
I've been given some odd
assignments by the Observer, but none quite so off the wall as sleeping
in what used to be Michael Jackson's bed, after discovering that the
Irish country homes he stayed in are now available to rent for weekend
breaks.
Grouse Lodge is a secluded Georgian estate located down
an unsigned, winding, potholed gravel drive near the village of
Rosemount. It was converted into a residential recording studio in 2002
by owners Paddy and Claire Dunning, and has been used by everyone from
REM to Doves, Muse to Ms Dynamite, Snow Patrol to Shirley Bassey. Paddy
is a modern-day renaissance man in his mid-40s whose life at times seems
only slightly less fantastical than Jackson's. He started out as a
Dublin dustman and became one of the founding fathers of the resurgence
of the Temple Bar district of the capital. Now his Dublin businesses
include Temple Lane Studios, the Sound Training Centre, the Button
Factory nightclub and The National Wax Museum Plus.
In 2006 a
woman called Grace Rwaramba arrived to check out Grouse Lodge studio for
an unnamed A-list pop star. She liked what she saw and booked the
studio plus a three-bed cottage on the grounds that had been converted
from a cowshed. But she still didn't reveal who the artist was. Paddy
and Claire only discovered the identity of their new lodger when a bus
turned up and out trooped Prince Michael Junior, Paris and Blanket,
followed by their father Michael Jackson, nanny Grace and the children's
tutor.
Grouse Lodge is set around an old farmyard, and there's a
collection of converted outbuildings that form a second grassed
courtyard, none of which is visible from the road, so it's not hard to
see why Jackson felt safe and secluded here. He began work on new
material at Grouse Lodge with Will.I.Am and Rodney Jerkins, producers
who flew in from America.
Jackson fell in love with County
Westmeath and, after a month in the converted cowshed, moved to the
equally secluded neighbouring estate of Coolatore, also owned by the
Dunnings. Because Jackson didn't have his own driver in Ireland, Paddy
enlisted local taxi driver Ray O'Hara to drive Michael and the kids
around in a borrowed people carrier with blacked-out windows.
The
Dunnings somehow managed to keep the fact that the King of Pop was in
residence a secret for several months. Even when Jackson began to
venture out and there were rumoured sightings of him in the nearby
villages of Moate or Kilbeggan, the Dunnings would deny all knowledge.
"If someone said to me I've heard Michael Jackson is there, I would tell
them: 'Yeah, so is Elvis Presley!' says Paddy.
The only security
Grouse Lodge arranged was to post three guards on rotation at the top
of the drive to intercept unwelcome visitors. When word eventually began
to leak out, locals in the know became protective of Jackson, sending
reporters the wrong way, and one farmer even threatened to empty his
slurry trailer over the car of a paparazzo.
The Irish Midlands
are often overlooked by people rushing from Dublin to Galway or other
parts of the west coast, but it's a magical land dotted with ringforts
and medieval castles. Within a few miles of Coolatore are the twin
historic hills of Cnoc Aiste and Uisneach; there's Lough Ennell and
Lilliput, where Jonathan Swift first conceived Gulliver's Travels (Paddy
is planning on an eco village in woods near Lough Ennell, along with a
seven-storey model of Gulliver); and Locke's Distillery in Kilbeggan,
now a museum. There are also a few local pubs that haven't changed for
decades, such as the William Fox in Loughnavalley, and Gunnings in
Rathconrath, which doubles as shop, newsagent, garage and community
centre.
Traditionally, the hill of Uisneach is the geographical
centre of Ireland. It's only 600ft high, but from the top you can see 20
counties on a clear day. It was the ancient seat of the kings of Meath,
the most sacred site in the world in Pagan times, and home of the
ancient festival of the fires, Bealtaine, which attracted Egyptians up
the Shannon 2,000 years ago. It's also home to the Cat Stone (or Stone
of Divisions), said to be the burial place of the goddess ?riu (who gave
her name to Ireland, or Eire) and where the ancient provinces of
Ireland were divided.
Uisneach is now part of the farm belonging
to David Clarke, and on 1 May this year, Clarke and Paddy organised the
first Festival of the Fires for more than 1,000 years, attracting a
diverse mix of locals, farmers, clairvoyants, witches, wizards and gurus
from far and wide. A beacon was lit on Uisneach, sparking a chain of
fires on 73 different hills across the country, from Dingle to Donegal.
"Michael was interested in history," says Paddy, "and smitten by the
intricacies of Irish music."
The Dunnings have a wealth of
stories from the time they spent with Jackson. "One night we ended up in
the studio," Paddy recalls. "Michael was on the drums, I was playing
guitar and [American producer] Nephew was on the keyboards and we just
started getting a rhythm together, and slowly but surely Nephew just
creeped the song in to 'Billie Jean'. It was just mad playing 'Billie
Jean' with Michael Jackson ? I never thought I'd do that."
Paddy
is a natural raconteur. He tells me how, when he bought the Wax Museum
Plus ? Dublin's answer to Madame Tussauds ? the resident Elvis was
looking a little tired, so Paddy retired him, placing him in the woods
by Coolatore. He had forgotten about him until Michael Jackson came in
from a walk one day looking shaken. "Paddy," he said, "I just met my
father-in-law in the woods!"
Towards the end of his stay in
Westmeath, Jackson started to look at prospective houses to buy. When
the Dunnings bought a further property, Bishopstown House, a derelict
Georgian estate a mile or so away, Jackson visited it and discussed the
renovations with Paddy. So, although it would be a little disingenuous
to call Bishopstown the House that Jacko built, it's certainly the house
built with Jacko in mind. Jackson had a base in London for his
ill-fated 50-date run of gigs at the O2, but according to Paddy he also
planned to spend time in Ireland, escaping the media glare of the
English capital.
Both Coolatore and the newly converted
Bishopstown are now available for hire. Coolatore is the larger estate
of the two ? a beautiful 1866 Victorian country retreat with long halls
and vaulted ceilings, grand living and dining rooms, a library and a
hidden staircase that leads down to a basement bar installed by the
Guinness family. Bishopstown, having been derelict for years before the
Dunnings took it over, has been converted in a much more contemporary
style, with a wood- clad extension added to the original Georgian house,
along with a secret fourth-floor roof garden, designed to afford
Jackson panoramic views of the countryside without being seen himself.
Both houses have six bedrooms and five bathrooms.
The houses are
rented primarily as self-catering properties, and if you use all the
available beds, they can work out costing ?100 a night each. It is also
possible to have meals supplied by nearby Grouse Lodge (they can also
arrange everything from massages to clay pigeon shooting), with menus
focusing on local produce and vegetables grown in their own walled
garden. Claire and the staff at Grouse Lodge cooked for Jackson, who
favoured a simple, healthy diet of porridge for breakfast and main meals
of fish or chicken with vegetables. "The guy was fit ? he was getting
stronger," Paddy says, "and I reckon if he had lived here and stayed
here, he wouldn't have died."
? Coolatore House and Bishopstown
House are available for hire. Prices start at ?1,200 for a weekend,
which includes access to the swimming pool, sauna and Jacuzzi or
whirlpool bath at Grouse Lodge. Both houses sleep 12. Visit
coolatorehouse.ie [http://coolatorehouse.ie" title="] and grouselodge.com [http://grouselodge.com" title="]
How to get there
Aer Lingus (aerlingus.com [http://aerlingus.com"
title="]) has daily flights from London Heathrow to Dublin, Cork,
Shannon and Belfast, and from London Gatwick to Dublin, Cork and Knock.
One-way fares start from ?29.99.
Prices for four days' car hire in Dublin start from ?33 (carrentals.co.uk [http://carrentals.co.uk" title="])
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