[Taoiseach Enda Kenny outside Bar Electric on the South Mall in Cork this morning]
Mr Kenny is in Cork to launch Fine Gael MEP candidate Senator Deirdre Clune’s campaign.
Alan Healy tweetz:
Anti-water tax protesters welcoming the Taoiseach to Cork. At Bar Electric.
Previously: Water Protest Casualty
UPDATE: A video from the Irish Examiner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qwsKQ4u4I8
Stay for the chanting and clapping.
John O’Donovan, top, following an incident at a water meter protest at Ashbrook Heights, Lehenaghmore in Togher, Cork this morning.
Earlier, resident Suzanne O’Flynn spoke to Neil Prendeville on Red FM about tensions between the Irish Water contractors and her neighbours this morning.
Suzanne O’Flynn: “They went to drive straight into the estate. Two of the residents were standing there. And the van, literally, a centimetre away from them.”
Neil Prendeville: “Are you saying that the truck drove at them intentionally?”
O’Flynn: “Yes, I am.”
Prendeville: “And they jumped out of the way?”
O’Flynn: “No, they didn’t move. The truck stopped, I’d say they thought they were going to move but they didn’t, they stood.”
Witness claims Irish Water truck drove at protesters in Cork (Newstalk)
Previously: Stopcock Blockers
Video by Dan Linehan
Campaign to rename Cork Airport after rock-blues legend Rory Gallagher is stepping up. See today’s @CorkEveningEcho pic.twitter.com/xmqrJLMnsn
— Evening Echo (@CorkEveningEcho) April 29, 2014
Really?
FIGHT!
Eoin English tweetz:
The latest Irish Water meter protest – in Elmvale, Cork. It brings to four the number of such blockades in the area.
Oh, it’s on.
Previously: Water Protests Everywhere
Pic: Eoin English
Hooch-infused high and low jinks depicted in a black and white video portrait of Cork city at night.
Shot on multiple nights but mainly in Oliver Plunkett Street on Arthur’s Day and during the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival last year.
Busker Jiri Meixner’s guitar gently weeps Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits.
Burp
Video by MJ Studio
Thanks Edel
Sinn Féin TD Jonathan O’Brien at the Fashion Gets Political charity show in aid of the Cork City Hospital Children’s Club, in Silver Springs Hotel in Cork last night.
He’s a natural.
Fair play, in fairness.
Jim Deasy writes:
WWW spotted on back road near Belcoo Co. Cork.
[Top: Kurt Cobain outside Old Grand Parade Hotel, Grand Parade, Cork City and (above) a flyer for the Sonic Youth/Nirvana gig at Sir Henry’s]
Nirvana played support to Sonic Youth at the 750-capacity Sir Henry’s in Cork on Tuesday, August 20, 1991.
Yesterday journalist Brian O’Connell (on RTE’s Today with Seán O’Rourke), asked former Sir Henry’s manager Seán O’Neill how many actually attended..
“On the night, we didn’t actually sell-out, it was a Tuesday night, this was Sonic Youth gig, really more than Nirvana, which was the support band. I would say probably we had about 300 at the end of the night. My recollection, I think there was about 14 people watching Nirvana at the start, now a few joined afterwards all right but nothing like what people say. People who weren’t even at the gig are now at the gig, you know, or now were at the gig and foresaw everything that was gonna come down the line.”
Oh.
Related: When Nirvana Came To Town (Des O’Driscoll, Irish Examiner)
Previously: “I Didn’t Know Until This Year That The Name Cobain Was Irish”
Pic: Kcobaindaily
Anne writes:
Making it easy for the canvassers – spotted in Magazine Road, Cork yesterday
Double rainbow all de way like.
(Thanks ivansantry)
Update:
A ‘singler’ the Black Lion, Inchicore, Dublin this evening.
Thanks Atticus