Currency artist favours blank notes for redraw

THE artist who designed the last wave of Irish bank notes before the euro was introduced said if he were to design a new currency for Ireland, the notes would be blank.

Eurosceptic Robert Ballagh believes the euro will collapse and he has his own ideas for what the country’s future currency should look like.

“Ireland would effectively become a provincial province of Europe with nosovereignty or identity so I would design it blank with one line of text in German stating: ‘The Irish province of the new German-led euro’,” said Mr Ballagh.