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Sale of Westlife rarities to aid club
Topic Started: Nov 10 2008, 09:32 AM (255 Views)
JoanneVIP
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By Anita Guidera


Monday November 10 2008

SUPERGROUP Westlife have been urged to help their local cash-strapped soccer club by buying some rare band memorabilia when it goes up for auction next week.

Avid collector Gavin Walsh from Sligo has agreed to donate his Westlife collection to raise money for Sligo Rovers at an auction next week to mark the club's 80th birthday and the 25th anniversary of their 1983 FAI Cup win over Bohemians.

The collection, worth an estimated €30,000, comprises up to 250 rare and one--off items of memorabilia, including Latin American and Asian posters, magazine covers and singing doll replicas of the Sligo group.

Mr Walsh (43), who has what is believed to be the biggest collection of Sex Pistols memorabilia in the world, said: "I felt it was my civic duty to collect these guys so I went on an eight-year binge, collating, cataloguing and collecting everything relating to Westlife".

He was once approached by a representative for the band to buy the collection.

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Nicky's Angel
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Thanks for posting :)
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JoanneVIP
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if westlie want to buy it ill gladly give it all so much a good home.....
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Nicky's Angel
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I'd probally do the same but I don't think I would have enough room in my house to keep it all :lol:
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JoanneVIP
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yes but the lads could buy us bigger houses to store it all. i wouldnt mind it at all xx
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Yeah that's a thought
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Mary
thanks for posting :)
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Gloria
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Thanks Jo for posting,It is a shame that the lads couldn't help out with some of their own money, it is their local club. They are so generous with other charities & commitments.Good Luck to the collector who is auctioning all his memorbeliaxx :)
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Sara
it is a shame :(
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JoanneVIP
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In refernece to beggining topic

Westlife give Rovers a €25,000 lifeline

BOYBAND Westlife have snapped up some rare memorabilia from their early career before it went to auction and thrown a lifeline to their local cash-strapped soccer team.

The Sligo group paid €25,000 for the 250 items that have been painstakingly gathered by local collector Gavin Walsh after he donated them to a fundraising auction to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sligo Rovers' FAI Cup Final win over Bohemians, and the band's 10th anniversary.

Shane Filan said he and the other members of the group -- Nicky Byrne, Mark Feehily and Kian Egan -- decided to put in the bid earlier this week when they realised the collection had become available.

"We first saw the collection five years ago and were very impressed by it. When we heard it was going to be auctioned we agreed we should make an offer.

"Our view was that it was better for the collection to end up with Westlife than anywhere else. We can now put it together with all the other memorabilia we have ourselves so that the complete collection will be in safe keeping.

"It's hard to put a price on these things but it is of great sentimental value for us," he explained.

Punk rock fan Gavin Walsh (43) started the collection in 2000 -- two years after Westlife was formed -- as "a civic duty".

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JoanneVIP
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AW goWestlife for doing that its so cool :) xx
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Mary
thanks for posting... that is soo cool
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09:59 AM
AW goWestlife for doing that its so cool :) xx

My thoughts exactly aw
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JoanneVIP
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its cool they have all f it though its only right they have it... one day they might open a museum x
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That would be cool :D
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