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.
The Temple Bar
It’s been a busy couple of weeks so I havent had a chance to get back to my photos until tonight. Here is one from a few weeks ago in Temple Bar after a rain shower when there were puddles in the cobblestones which reflected the neon sigh of The Temple Bar pub.
Ice
This was the view from inside my car this morning before the drive to work. Fortunately we had bought an ice scraper at the weekend so we were on the road in a short amount of time. Winter is certainly here now.
Railings
Listening to the growing storm outside I think all the leaves will be finally be gone off the trees tomorrow. Autumn will be gone and winter will be here.
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.
The Wall
The Dublin City Marathon was on over the bank holiday weekend and the route takes it close to where I live. Conveniently from a photographic point of view it’s also around mile 20 where the legendary wall is supposed to lurk waiting for runners to bang into it. Many runners came by looking like they had started the race 500 meters away around the bend but many more came by looking like they were dragging the world behind them.
I dont think I’d ever be able to run even a half marathon so I admire anyone who made it to 20 miles and I hope all those who passed my camera finally made it to the finish line and woke up this morning with a deserved sense of achievement and pride.