Announcing his investiture as Grand Marshall of the St Patrick’s Day Parade this morning, John Giles returned to his birthplace, Ormond Square, Smithfield, Dublin, and met the locals including, top pic from left: Kay Tyrrell, Catherine Reilly, Giles, Paddy Reilly, Robert O’Toole and his granddaughter Caoimhe O’Toole; pic 2 and 3, Jamie Kelly; pic 5: Lucy (right) and Pia Madden and, bottom pic, Christy Maher.

Earlier: Finally

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

 

They’re all coming back.

Patricia McKenna (for it is she), and Thomas Pringle TD representing the People’s Movement, hosting a press conference literally earlier in Buswell’s Hotel, Dublin, against the EU fiscal union treaty.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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