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Gottfried Helnwein: 'Everybody wanted to stay here'
Artist Gottfried Helnwein described moving to Ireland and buying an old castle in Munster on The Tommy Tiernan Show last Saturday.
Austrian-born Helnwein said he bought a home in Tipperary after his wife found a castle they could live in.
"When we came [to Ireland] I liked it, everybody wanted to stay here, my kids really liked it. My wife got a castle for me because I like castles, and my wife is really good at getting stuff, if she's on a mission, she gets it. She got a castle there that's where we ended up.
"It's an old castle and we started restoring it and I'm still restoring it. It's really magic, it's really great. I think it was two million Deutsche Mark at that time. But, it's easy to buy a castle but to keep it up and restore it... I really love old architecture and I restored as perfect as a movie set. It's really great."
Gottfried and his wife Renate live in Gurteen Castle, Kilsheelin.
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