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Maggie Keating, back in 2008 with Joe Dolan’s hip bone. Photo: Brian Moore/The Avondhu

“It all went haywire. It was just a bit of banter. I never put a for sale sign on it.”

That’s what Maggie Keating from Mitchelstown has to say following a week of non-stop publicity in the media concerning reports of her alleged desire to sell Joe Dolan’s hip bone which she bought for charity some years ago. It was reported that she wanted to put the money towards her daughter’s third level education.

It all started when she got a call from the Neill Prendeville Show following a Joe Dolan documentary on RTE enquiring if she would come on and have a chat. Afterwards they asked would she be interested in having it valued. She insists she did not contact them but suspects that someone who had seen the RTE programme altered them to the existence of the item in her possession.

“I have it over 10 years. I was asked would I be interested in getting it valued. An auctioneer on a later show said if it was being auctioned it should have a €1,500 reserve but could conceivably make a lot more. Someone from Bundoran then said they would be interested in buying it for charity. They were followed by a lot more.”

Maggie’s daughter attends UCC and is continually being contacted on Facebook about the hip-bone and potential offers.

“I was even offered €3,000 rather than having it go to auction. There’s an awful lot of interest in it.”

The mother of 5 said she was blown away by the inaccurate reportage of some media outlets and in particular some newspapers.

“I never said that I believed I could sell the bone for a small fortune or that I thought that Joe Dolan was going to help me from beyond the grave to help pay my daughters college fees.”

Maggie concludes that she ‘hasn’t made up her mind yet about selling it and is still debating it’.

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