100yr-old bus seat sprung from NYC

A BROOKLYN bus seat has turned up in Ireland after it was shipped across the Atlantic by an immigrant Irishman.

The century-old artefact is featured on RTE’S new National Treasures TV show and exhibition.

This piece of New York history was brought back by Cavan farmer John J Sloane, who was called home suddenly in 1912.

He turned the leather seat, which once travelled the streets of the Big Apple with him, into an armchair which

Mr Sloane with his Fifth Avenue coach took pride of place in his kitchen.

The farmer spent 12 years driving a bus in the city until his father took gravely ill.

Niall Sloane revealed the battered chair remained at Millbrook Farm even after his great-granddad died in 1972.

He said: “It’s not the finest object you would see, or a lovely piece of Georgian silver, but to me it’s special. I’m sure if the chair could speak it would have a lot to say.”

National Treasures airs on RTE One every Sunday at 6.30pm.