The Irish Congress of Trade Unions called a protest against the Irish austerity budgets and the IMF/EU bailout terms. A combination of trade unions, socialist workers and republicans. In fairness the main march was a very peaceful and well organized affair with between 50,000 and 100,000 people depending on who you believe. Unfortunately afterwards a few die hard students marched on the Dail and burned some posters of the Taoiseach for the cameras worlds media. This photo comes from the start of the march when the groups were gathering and a few stood on the wall waving nationalist flags to encourage the crowd.
Month: November 2010
The Temple Bar
Ice
Railings
Guinness Time
We went to the pub yesterday to watch Ireland play South Africa in the Guinness Series 2010. Unfortunately South Africa were the better team and apart from a late rally that brought Ireland tantalizingly close to snatching a victory most of the match was forgettable. So much so that at one stage I took out my camera and decided to grab a few shots. It was a bit dark so I had to set the ISO quite high and that made the images very noisy but I like this one so I thought I’d post it up.