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They’re just laughing at democracy.

This afternoon

Surreptitiously-placed, sticky-backed shenanigans at the General Election Count centre in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 as a full recount (called by Averil Power who trails 67 votes for the last  seat ) for the Dublin Bay North constituency gets under way.

Harrumph.

Rollingnews

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Anything Good In The Maine Valley Post?

Last night.

Castleisland, Co Kerry.

Motorcyclist ‘Den’ Joe O’Connor (top) and passenger, Danny Healy Rae TD (Top) and Michael Healy Rae (below) with supporters, from left: Betty O’Connell Mary O’Reilly, Martina Long and Ann Foran during the Healy Rae Thanksgiving Tour of the Kerry constituency where the brothers won a seat a piece.

Thanksgiving Tour Stops for Champagne and Selfies (Maine Valley Post)

Photographs: John Reidy

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Saturday.

The Ambassador Theatre, Parnell Square Upper O Connell Street, Dublin

The opening of new Sinn Féin-backed exhibition ‘Revolution 1916’ featuring the largest private collection of Easter Rising memorabilia with over 500 items on display.

From top: Usher Rachel O’Brien in the theatre’s 1916-mural-bedecked foyer; Molly O’Reilly, granddaughter of Countess Markievicz, with a statue of her famous relative;; a revolver used by Michael Collins;  A car used in the movie Michael Collins (1996); Artist Brian P Mulvany beside his 1916 drawing a year in the making;  Ed Cosgrave as Padraig Pearse reads the 1916 Proclamation; Exhibition organiser Bartie D’Arcy  in a replica of the stonebreaker’s yard from Kilmainham Jail.

Fight!

Revolution 1916

Leon Farrell/Rollingnews

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