Posts Tagged ‘St Patrick’s Street’

Fred Fans Go Wild!

Monday, May 12th, 2008 by Donncha
Fred Fans

Two enthusiastic fans of band, , when they played at the May Day celebrations in back in 2005. I loved their first album, but the second one was just more of the same. Great to hear and watch live though!

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Fancy ass public transport

Saturday, May 10th, 2008 by Donncha
fancy ass public transport

OK, so it’s not quite a , but it’s a stretch . I saw it again today cruising up and down Patrick’s with the rear window open a crack. I’d hate to see that try to navigate a tight bend!

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Little girl goes shopping

Monday, April 7th, 2008 by Donncha

A young on Patrick’s pushes her buggy with her mothercare bag. See the face she’s making? She means business!

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Big smile for the Parade!

Monday, March 24th, 2008 by Donncha

I think it’s safe to say this was the biggest of St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2008 for me. Nobody in the was smiling anyway. They were all too squashed in or straining to see over the heads of those in front.

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I can see the parade!

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 by Donncha

Some go to all lengths to watch the St. Patrick’s Day Parade as these show.

Congrats to my friends John and Ann on the birth of their son Caelin yesterday. You’re lives are going to change *so much* but you’re going to have a great time with the little guy!

PS. Just upgraded almost all my blogs to WP 2.5, please leave a comment if you notice anything odd!


St. Patrick’s Day 2008 Slideshow
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La le Phadraig ar Sraid Phadraig

Friday, March 21st, 2008 by Donncha

look out of an upstairs window in Merchants Quay centre. When I took this shot I didn’t even see them!
I was concentrating on the in the foreground with their . I think they frame the rather nicely and ties in with the name of the day too.

Check out some great of Inchigeela from the 1960’s on textlad’s set. Thanks Katie, they’re wonderful!

This reminds me of someone at Mallow Camera Club who showed a number of slides he had bought or got off a priest who had served on a mission in South America. The images were from decades ago and the priest was dead and buried by now. Pictures were still as good as ever, but they’re languishing in a slide box now. I’d love to see them uploaded to Flickr and made public.

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The Grumpy Lepruachan

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 by Donncha

If you’re going to sit up on a high wall wearing a funny hat you could at least look that you have a great position to see the St Patrick’s Day Parade. No, I didn’t see this fella at all.

A year before the wall was taken over by photographers but alas, the excellent vantage point was wasted this year.

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St. Patrick’s Day Tricolour Girl

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 by Donncha

A young leans on a traffic light where she has a bird’s eye view of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in .

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St Patrick’s Day 2008 in Cork

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 by Donncha

A flavour of the St Patrick’s Day festivities and who attended the Parade in yesterday.

Some of the Special Olympics Team took part in the parade and as I said yesterday, it was strange to see only them on the with nobody else about. Everyone cheered them on however and clapped as they passed! The next group took at least 5 minutes to appear leaving me to wonder if the parade had already finished.

You normally don’t see Irish waving about unless it’s a special occasion. St. Patrick’s Day is one of those times when the the Irish comes out!

If there’s a buck to be made ..

Crowds lined Patrick’s in to watch the Parade. It was crazy! To get any sort of shot I had to either hold my camera in the air and shoot blind or grab quick shots with the zoom from between the bobbing heads of those in front of me. If you were in any way uncomfortable with crowds then it wasn’t the place for you.

More tomorrow and for a few days probably.

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Face in the machine

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 by Donncha

A on Patrick coming out of Drawbridge stopped and I spotted the two in the .

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