This afternoon.
RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
President Higgins (pic 2 and 5) and Sabina (pic 3) join horse-loving ‘revellers’, including Mary Mitchell O’Connor (Pic 3) on Day 3 of the the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Stena Line Dublin Horse Show.
Yesterday: Brimful of Hataí
Great afternoon at RDS. The 'old enemy' took the Aga Khan Cup but we came in a good third . Brexit took a back seat for a few hours! pic.twitter.com/RFAO3qN23B
— Shane Ross (@Shane_RossTD) August 9, 2019
Good grief.
This morning/afternoon.
RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Scenes from Day 1 of the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Stena Line Dublin Horse Show.
Yesterday: Might As Well Jump
‘sup?
This afternoon.
RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Ahead of it’s opening tomorrow, preparations are underway for the Longines FEI Jumping Nations Cup™ Stena Line Dublin Horse Show or ‘The Horse Show’, if you’re into the whole brevity thing.
Pic 1: ‘Boss’ with owner Rachel Moore; pic 2: Ciara Dennigan with her horse ‘Paulank Pepperpot’ and pic 6 Shanbally Dejavu being washed by owner Tom McNamara.
Just one of the car parks near @DublinHorseShow this weekend. Not often you seen this here @broadsheet_ie @JOEdotie pic.twitter.com/RcsIFLZfzk
— John Rooney (@JRooneyIRL) August 11, 2017
We’re back, baby.
A hurling and sliothar jump at the RDS Showgrounds, Ballsbridge, Dublin, this afternoon. The Discover Ireland Horse Show opens tomorrow.
Previously: Are The GAA The Illumuinati? on Broadsheet
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Lovely jubbly.
Thanks Aidan Coughlan
What do you mean you ‘weren’t invited’?
The ladies of Ladies’ Day at the Horse Show in the RDS, showgrounds, Ballsbridge, Dublin, this afternoon.
From top: Elaine Bury, Dawn Leadon-Bolger, Joanne Murphy, Rieleen Wessels, Paula Clancy & Louise Gallagher and Eva Hayes-Morrissey.
(Laura Hutton-Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
That’s how they rolled.
“At the weeklong Dublin Horse Show this year, impeccable stewards… saw to good form by day but through the night guests kicked up their heels in elegantly high-spirited horseplay…[A]fter the events of the show came the sparkle of champagne parties and the hilarity of crowded hunt balls that carried on till dawn. The young guests pranced through Irish dances like the Siege of Ennis and the Walls of Limerick, stomped to When the Saints Go Marching In, and, inevitably, galloped to John Peel over and over again… When show week was over, the horses were sleek and fresh as ever, but not the guests. “That’s why Dublin is so dull the rest of the year,” a host observed. “It’s because it takes 51 weeks to recuperate.”
Horseplay At The Horse Show (Life Magazine, August 27, 1956)
Thanks Sibling
Meanwhile, in 1901:
From The National Library of Ireland:
Love to think of the lady in the feathered hat doing an Eliza Doolittle on it and ROARING “Move yer bloomin’ ahem!” :)
Ben Crawford, age 6, from Galway
Cara Mooney, 13, from Naas, Co Kildare with Bill Ringrose, former president of the RDS.
Safety stewards Oinri Jackson and Neville Jessop
Adam, 6 and Ailbhe Murphy, 8, from Killarney, Kerry
It’s tradition, innit?
Taken literally within the last hour at the Failte Ireland Horse Show in the RDS showgrounds, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
