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At the Presidential election count

red mum — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:05:56 +0000

I’ve been quiet here as I’ve been working on Michael D’s Presidential election campaign. I’m going to do a post with some of my favourite photographs from the campaign, but in the meantime I spotted this on the coat rail in the count centre, as well as a pic of Michael D and his wife Sabina taken at the count last night. More soon

(PS I could not be more proud )

Bluebells

red mum — Thu, 05 May 2011 23:51:57 +0000

First we had grape hyacinths, now we have bluebells, nothing is as beautiful as Spring

Missing the Sneachta?

red mum — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:12:16 +0000

For some of us the snow was washed away recently, so apologies if you don’t want to be reminded but I’ve more snow posts to come, blame it on the Christmas boogie!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

red mum — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:14:32 +0000

I’m a big kid when it comes to snow – cold and wet feet aside. I think we were ~~depraved~~ deprived (eek) of real snow as kids and it has left a scar

I haven’t really had a chance to get out and about and take pics. So this lot is literally taken to and from work, which was, as those of you in Dublin will know, mad this evening (Wednesday). I was lucky and walked from work into town to get the Luas and walked from the Four Courts to Stoneybatter. Some people had a really awful time getting home and I hope at this stage for them it is all a distant memory.

I’m sure I’ll be sick of the snow soon, and I’m sure I won’t like the gas bill but hey Dublin’s all pretty.

10.10am 10/10/10 – snapshot in time

red mum — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:42:03 +0000

On Friday I had a thought that I tweeted about people taking a pic at 10.10am, today Sunday the 1oth of October the 10th month of 2010. After an initial hiccup about the day (I thought it was Saturday) and another with the hashtag! (Gah to impatient tweeting) people responded with lots and lots of pics, so here they are.

If you tweeted a pic and I have somehow missed it, send me a link to it on twitter (@redmum) and I’ll amend the entry to include it.

Thanks to everyone who took part, the response was fantastic. And a big thanks to everyone who retweeted it and got more people involved. It was a bit of craic and a great peak into what was going on all over the place for one minute at 10.10am this morning. Thanks again

Cllr Richard Humphreys on Facebook

And finally, as in finally off the camera and uploaded, my pic going into Dublin’s Port Tunnel @redmum

Dáil resumes as do the protests

red mum — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:42:51 +0000

Last week was the first week back for the Dáil following the summer recess and the protesters were back in full force. It started Tuesday with people protesting against a visiting delegation from China, the second pic shows the subject of their ire travelling past, while the third is a man showing his opposition to NAMA and the prescription levy.

On Wednesday thats when the real show began with the Dáil coming back and all manners of protesters taking to the streets. There were people highlighting cancer screening, the anti civil partnership group, the families of children who’ve died in HSE care, the ICTU march, some anti-choicers including old heads from Youth Defence, Godly people, community groups and more. So the last lot of shots are from that motley crue and as ever there are more protest pics from last week on Pixie.

Apologies

red mum — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:55:39 +0000

Apologies for the blank blog but there is maintenance work going on in Pixie. Normal viewing will resume shortly. In the meantime you could have a look at the many great blogs on my blogroll.

While we wait lets slop in some mud – from the National Ploughing Championships and from a future post

Phoenix Park

red mum — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:10:45 +0000

On Saturday morning I was delighted via Dublin Blog to get an invite to Dublin Zoo to see the goings-on as the zoo wakes up in the morning, it was a great morning and I will be post some pics from that here and on Dublin Blog later. On the way home I spotted a group of people having an outdoor yoga or meditation session and was also taken by the benches scattered around the place for summer visitors to watch what’s happening in the band stand. The benches look like they’re waiting for something, probably next year’s summer or maybe they’re just watching the yoga.

Rainbows over Stoneybatter

red mum — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:28:20 +0000

Last week this amazing rainbow ended a day of awful rain here in Dublin and judging by the twitter reaction everyone around Dublin could see the same fantastic sight.

Donkey derby

red mum — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:25:49 +0000

Over the next while I’ll be posting pics from our two days in Mullaghmore in Sligo. We woke up on the first morning to see bouncy castles and stalls being set up, with the main attraction of the day being the donkey derby. It was mighty craic altogether so this first pic is from one of the donkey derby races.