Annie West tweetz:
Tish and pish to your Bouncy Castle. This was a kids’ birthday Party yesterday
Mmmf.
Annie West writes:
Thanks to the gifted Sligo photographer James Connolly we can now bring you the Benbulben 1916 flag…
UPDATE:
The flag up close.
The reason?
As part of our ongoing centenary celebrations, some members of the Fr Michael O’Flanagan Memorial Group made it to the summit of Benbulben at lunchtime on Easter Monday to fly a tri-colour.
Fr O’Flanagan instigated the seditious practice of displaying the tri-colour in Cliffoney in the summer of 1915.
In her book Crossing Highbridge, Maureen Waters describes how her father, a member of the Grange Volunteers, climbed Benbulben and planted a tri-colour there in 1916 to let the people of North Sligo know the Rising had begun.
Cliffoney Remembers Fr Michael O’Flanagan (Facebook)
Thanks David Lawless
Bundoran, Co. Donegal with the Dartry mountains and Ben Bulben in the background.
(Thanks Cillian Bracken)
Meanwhile…
This afternoon.
Dei and Liam McDonald write:
First cherry blossom basking in the sun in our garden right now in Blackrock Dublin
Tonight.
Cobraverde writes:
Phibsboro [Dublin] had always been a bit mad….
Sunset at Lough Owel, Co Westmeath.
Thanks Andrew Gibbons
Tonight.
Lahinch, Co Clare
Thanks Joe Culley
The view of Clew Bay from Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo at the weekend.
Thanks DMAC
A glider over Ben Bulben, Co Sligo on on Friday.
Via @nooneboy
Thanks Annie West
Mick O’Hara tweetz:
A Sligo welcome…News crews in abundance
This is rumoured to be the work of a Fine Gael councillor.
Anyone?
(Thanks anon)