The home of Tree Light Pictures, Mervue, Galway.
Defiant Tricolours to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
At the Mumford And Sons-headlining concert minutes ago.
Andy Taylor writes:
Sunshine and Nathaniel Rateliff
Earlier on Salthill beach:
With lighting by Blacklight (Galway).
Thanks Emma O’Grady.
Tricolour Overloads to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
Plus: “to the south the beautiful white coral beaches, cliffs, picturesque beauty that
is loved by painters all over the world. The Aran Islands are next on the horizon. To the north-east the region is dominated by the twelve Bens and Maamturk mountain ranges culminating in the fjord of Killary.”
AND it has decking.
One of the five properties (out of 21) sold at the Merlinproperty.ie auction this afternoon at the Radisson Blu Hotel, in Dublin.
By Sean McCormack who sez:
The clouds completely covered the moonrise, so I shot this about 4am. Single exposure, processed lightly in Lightroom. Canon 5D Mark II. Lens EF 24-70mm f2.8L
And over Wicklow Town (via @sole-2-soul)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7jgfjxaJ-I
James Corballis writes:
A time-lapse of Funderland setting up outside my window, on Galway Docks.

So, Harry’s on his way to Galway?
Hmm.
From today’s Galway Advertiser:
“I have kept in touch with many of the people I met during the last event [Volvo Ocean Race] in 2009, some of whom know Prince Harry personally,” [Fine Gael Councillor Padraig] Conneely (above) told the Galway Advertiser. “It was suggested to me that he would warmly welcome the opportunity to come to Galway for the finale.” Cllr Conneely subsequently made enquiries through the British diplomatic service and was in contact with the Taoiseach’s office to notify them of the circumstances. Since then the Fine Gael councillor has learned that there has been “engagement at the highest diplomatic level, and it is just a matter of protocol before a visit is confirmed”.
However, Rival paper, the Galway City Tribune, contacted Buckingham Palace today and it appears Cllr Conneely is the excitable victim of a royal hoax. The Advertiser exclusive, we understand, was based not so much on discussions “at the highest diplomatic level” but apparently on correspondence containing “a fake letterhead”. Ouch.
Prince Harry Visit to Galway Report Is A Royal Hoax (Galway News)
Thanks Allan Cavanagh
Pepper spray has been usedon protesters by gardai after scuffles broke out near barricades at the conference hall.
— Galway Independent (@galwayindo) April 14, 2012


















Protestors and Garda and private security staff scuffle – amid reports of pepper spray being used – outside the Labour party conference in NUI, Galway this afternoon. The photos – taken in sequence – record the moments protestors broke through a police cordon to get close to the main entrance of the conference venue, the Bailey Allen Hall.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Salthill, Galway, within the last 30 minutes.
Thanks Andy Taylor