There are fans, and then there are fans. And then, of course, there are Joe Dolan fans, who are a different breed altogether.

Maggie Keating, a Cork-based admirer of the late Mullingar musician, has amassed a huge collection of souvenirs related to her favourite singer - including the 'Good Looking Woman' singer's actual hip bone. She bought it on eBay in 2004 for €690 when Dolan auctioned it for Irish Autism Action after he had a hip replacement.

Now, however, she wants to sell it, reports the Irish Mirror, to help her daughter financially in her final year of college.

It's signed and everything - with a message saying 'Mind my hip' - which you can see below from the photo posted to Cork radio station Red FM's Facebook page.

"It was always nice to look up and see it, it was on display in my house but then some people would pretend to bite it as a joke or throw it to the dog so I wrapped it up and put it away in case it would break," she told Neil Prendiville on his show on Red FM yesterday morning.

She turned to the station for their help in selling it, because apparently selling body parts on eBay is now forbidden. Surprising, that.

"I don’t know how much it would even be worth but I have had my joy from it and now maybe it would be time for someone else to, if I could get the right money for it," she said. “My eldest daughter Chloe is in her final year of college and Joe would have been good friends with her too so if this could help her that would be amazing."