Late yesterday evening I found myself in the city centre and gave hxci of this very parish a buzz, knowing he’d be about. We went for a walk around ‘fortress Dublin’, on both sides of the Liffey. We took in Dame Street, Parnell Square and other sites which will be central to the royal visit. Here are a few snaps.
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
Were you questioned at all? I took this random photo on my way through town and was practically interrogated.
Royal Logo
I would like to propose a competition for during the visit (no prizes).
I remember way back, Ian Paisley was protesting that the union jack was being flown upsidedown. I was astonished. How could that be. Closer examination showed that it could.
So I propose we keep an eye out for upsidedown union jacks and post them in to you.
You can see the correct way here:
I routinely keep an eye out for upsidedown Euro flags and there is no shortage of these around the place.
http://photopol.blogspot.com/2008/07/encore-sarko.html
PS: The Turk’s Head got it right.
glad to see someone had the decency to spray over eirigi’s first effort in the second pic…
now if only it was that easy to get rid of the gobsh*tes in the first place!..
Morriseey joins the argument:
http://www.hotpress.com/politics/frontlines/7901992.html
I had a Garda at the barrier in Denmark street tell me not to take any photos. He then demanded to see the photos I had taken. Another Garda came over and told him to calm down.
Time for a song.
Took some lockdown shots on my trip to town this morning.
http://photopol.com/eiir/eiir.html
Took them in full view of the garda. Spoke to the garda. Was not asked anything, other than where I was going when I tried to pass the barrier at the south-east corner of Parnell Square.
Maybe it was the white stick that let me away with it.
[Only joking 🙂 ]
the britification of Ireland…..by the great and good of the political classes, journos and now Trinity College. To me Trinners was a wanky spot for west brits who couldn’t get into UCD Commerce and went for ESS. Now Ireland seems to have gone all out with the west britification and some are implying that Trinners is a better college than the National Colleges of Ireland. Do they still reserve places there for students from NI?
Turks Head and Foleys…….. for many years I couldn’t understand how Foleys on Merrion Row was always empty when ODonaghues, Toners and D&N were busrting at the seems. Neither will ever get a penny from me going forward. Anyone got more to add to the list?
I liked this RTE clip…… http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0517/queen.html as it shows the public on OConnell St consist of tourists and only a few women. No welcoming crowds would imply not welcome, no? waste of money? why is she here? Someone in Govt, media, glitteria got it wrong. Maybe it’ll be no public/tax-payers on the street but lots behind doors in Trinners. Can wait to see whose attending for the QE11 formal dinner.
The only thing I can be thankfully thro’out is that QE11 isn’t limited to Dublin or we’d never hear the end of it from the culchies. The English Market in Cark……. i’de never heard of it previously. It had previously burnt down twice…. why didn’t The Rebels rename the place then?
CHTM, you deserve my heart felt appreciatation, kudos & props for leading today with The Justice for the Forgotten and the Brit Govts ignoring the requests for the Barron Commission. Note Barron’s strong criticism of Fine Gael too. Like FF being totally out of tune with the public and their subsequent hammering in the election, The Blueshirts and EGilmore might (hopefully) get the same.
do you know who’s to blame for it all…..
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/23/52796965hi012000615.jpg/
…. it’s those Denny Sausagers !??! WTF
Thank God for the ManUre shirt so Celtic can escape the usual abuse.
“the britification of Ireland…..by the great and good of the political classes, journos and now Trinity College.”
Ah, yes, despite globalisation having been in full swing since the mid-nineteenth century, let’s blame the nameless political classes (in a democratic country) and journalists (in an internet age where ten times as many people ‘like’ thejournal.ie than the Irish Times) and a university run by a physicist from Mayo (who went to Maynooth) and a former president (also from Mayo) for the “britification” of Ireland. Right. Grand conspiracy. The Irish people demand their right to freedom, but aren’t clever enough to make their own mind up without interference from “the political classes”. Right.
“To me Trinners was a wanky spot for west brits who couldn’t get into UCD Commerce and went for ESS.”
I see. You know that ESS has had higher points than Commerce every year since at least 1998, right?
” Now Ireland seems to have gone all out with the west britification and some are implying that Trinners is a better college than the National Colleges of Ireland.”
There’s only one National College of Ireland. You might be thinking of the colleges of the National University of Ireland, formerly known as the Queen’s Colleges.
Really, CHTM, why do you let such nonsense past the filter? “Wanky spot for west braits who couldn’t get into UCD” is above your threshold? (And, FWIW, I’ve a degree from UCD.)
The most disastrous thing to happen to this country was the Irishification of politics since 1922. Also know as the Great Wesbogification it put power into the hands of small minded parochial bogmen who made the country a Vatican principality while lining their own pockets. Tens of thousands of poor children and young women paid the price with with there lives and their sanity. Hundreds of thousands of them found refuge in Britain.
As for “deh ‘ate hunnerd years of Eenglish opression” who give a shite. Far more Irishmen fought in the British army then stayed at home worrying about a few rich folks losing their property and leggin it to Spain a few hundred years ago.
The shoes of the dead walked in should be buried with them.
I can’t wait to see all the er “defenders of Irish freedom” when Herr Ratzinger shows up next year. If “occupying” the six counties provokes violent reactions then Herr Ratzinger occupying the entire island ought to start a bleedin’ war!
As token head of the Bilderbergers along with Queen Julliana of Holland, it’s only right that the Queen should come to Ireland to inspect her property. The woman showing her around is merely one of her juniors at Bilderberg.
The Irish have been sold down the river by their corrupt politicians and their banking class. The heavy dosage of fluoride in their drinking water has kept them passive. The Greeks have shamed them but the mass of the Irish haven’t a clue and don’t know that some people are not offering up their arses to the IMF and the World bank for shafting.
Hail to the Greeks and the Icelanders. Brave independent people.
If any of you get a chance, go hear Ian R Crane give his talk entitled…”The Pillage of Ireland by it politicians and bankers”. He is touring Ireland at present.
Google his website for his schedule.
hey Enda H “You know that ESS has had higher points than Commerce every year since at least 1998, right?”
read it again… TO ME Trinners WAS….” as in…
1) IN MY DAY…
2) BACK WHEN…..
3) I grad’d UCD in the early ’90’s
Trinners was, and still is, an establishment for the privileged oinks (as per their own vocab).
but you did get this much correct…..” The Irish people demand their right to freedom, but aren’t clever enough… ”
that’s why they’re called the sheeple of Ireland and are a disgrace incompare to the Icelandic and Greeks
only yestr Baldy Noonan came out with….’We’re not for turning on this issue. We’re prepared to pay the price,’ Mr Noonan told reporters after ……
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0526/bailout-business.html
…….even copying the turn of phase of ………… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady's_not_for_turning
NO it’s not a commonly used phrase in Ireland.
YES it’s one which is used, almost exclusively, in a socio political context.
YES it became a defining turn of phase for that being (thing) and her govts policies/behaviour.