Scenes from inside and outside the Allsop auction at the RDS in Ballsbridge, Dublin this morning.
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Were you at the RDS on Saturday night?
How was it for you?
Leinster match with sunset.
RDS Dublin 4 tonight.
Thanks Killian Nolan
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!” :)
Two Eucharistic Congress ‘revellers’ at the congress’ opening ceremony in the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin, this afternoon.
Meanwhile, an awkward cardinal, duo-colour overload and some damn hipster nuns.
Meanwhile, outside the RDS:
Members of LGBT Noise group.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
This afternoon.
Preparing for tomorrow’s opening ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress.
Must be the Body & Soul stage.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Scenes from the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis last night in the RDS. From top: FF National Executive candidate Stephanie Keating, centre, and her supporters; Michael Martin; Barry Andrews; Mary Hanafin and Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher; Martin Mansergh; Eamon O’Cuiv and Michael McGrath; Michael Martin, and Mary Corbett-Joyce.
Contentious Motions On Fianna Fail Agenda (RTE)
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
Aaron Dunne, 13, from St. David’s CBS. in Artane, Dublin, putting together his display for the BT Young Scientist Exhibition at the RDS, which starts this morning.
What is Aaron’s vision for the future?
A custom-built Bank of Ireland ATM for cash lodgements.
Oh.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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.