Easter Sunday morning.
The great, the good and others on the viewing platform for the Easter Rising commemoration opposite the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.
*throws cabbage*
Pics: Emily
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Spot the terrorist.
I see him! ….I was looking for ages and couldn’t spot him…its funny really how they look like normal people after a while.
I wonder how many people he tied to a proxy bomb? …. I would guess even the people of 1916 would think that was beyond the pale. Yesterdays psychopath is today’s politician….funny old world.
Spot the traitor
I hate Katherine ‘water charges’ Zappone. Can’t believe she got elected.
What was the criteria for selection for this seating area?
Hereditary, you know like what gives Kings and Queens their seat. And then a bunch of last governments politicians, and ex heads of state.
So has- beens and their chums got you a seat..
They’re special beens tho, magic ones :)
yeah.. almost like human beans.
Anyone would wouldn’t boo Edna
the Good the bad and the ugly
Anyone else catch the ‘side’ parades by the numpties in black bandanas and shades….. oh, how I chuckled…. so twee……
Really? So glad I didn’t experience that, would have winced myself inside out with embarrassment.
I did enough cringing for everyone :)
The Rising belonged to everyone. There isn’t one correct way to commemorate it.
Lynn Boylan had a moan… nobody cared…..
https://twitter.com/LNBDublin/status/714215114409439233?s=03
She was there with her boyfriend, Sinn Fein’s intellectual-in-residence Eoin O’Broin. How did two Shinners get such good seats?
They probably just sat down really quickly when the music stopped.
They’re part of the establishment when they want to be
Someone beat Julien to the title of Sinn Fein’s intellectual-in-residence? No way.
I’d say the competition was only fierce. Not easy keeping an egg on a spoon over that distance.
Tbf the Shinners are not bereft of thinkers.
Morgan Kelly is reputed to lend a helping hand from time to time.
It’d take more than that to brief Adams on economic matters but it would still be a mistake for the mainstream parties to underestimate SF in that regard. Especially since neither would be accused of being overly interested in policy & intellectualism.
“How did two Shinners get such good seats?”
They have 23 seats in the Dail. It’s called democracy. And their party has a direct line to Sinn Fein of 1916. Can’t have your cake and eat it Quint.
And here we have the lesser spotted BIFFO, rarely seen in the wild anymore, searching for the nearest “watering hole”
Oh well spotted. I thought Barry Cowen had melted in the spring sunshine.
Is he still on the board of Topaz now his buddy DOB has sold his interests on…..
Probably not but still on The Beacon no doubt. Nice to see the guys who gave away our sovereignty getting the best seats
Is Biffo holding up a drink in that photo.Certainly looks that way
It certainly looks like the woman behind him wearing a completely different color is holding up a cup of coffee.
Nothing really escapes you does it
Hi editor.
I see Wig brought Donie Cassidy along! Great to see them both, been years!
Ha, ya wagon!
id straight up murder Bertie and Cowen if i could. Idealy as part of the parade on sunday. Public execution. Id do it with my bare hands .. one at a time or both at once, its all the same.
hope they are waiting for their turn on Monsieur Guillotine’s new invention, (apart from the marys)