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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people attended Ireland’s newest artistic festival, Cruinniú na Cásca today.
Free events took place around the country to celebrate Irish culture, with RTÉ reporting that some 550,000 people were in attendance.
The festival follows on from last year’s 1916 commemorations, and is presented by RTÉ in association with Creative Ireland.
While many events took place nationwide, large-scale celebrations took place in Dublin, at St Stephen’s Green, Custom House Quay, Smithfield and Dublin Castle.
There was singing, dancing, and music on the streets – and even the Taoiseach was getting involved.
It appears Enda was in the mood for an old dance today.
There was also Irish dancing and Samba in St Stephen’s Green.
And Joe Duffy was also knocking around town.
The Chinese Children’s Dance Academy put on a spectacular display at Dublin’s Custom House.
While kids were able to take part in a drum workshop in St Stephen’s Green.
Many were giving is socks…
But it wasn’t just Dublin that was in full swing.
The festival took the rest of the country by storm also.
While this is the first year of Cruinniú na Cásca, it’s expected it will become an annual event.
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…..and this is now the main ingredient in Cadburys “chocolate “…..is it any wonder it’s become inedible with this muck as it’s core ingredient…..
Doesn’t taste the same since Kraft took Cadbury’s over. Food industry rife with unethical practices.
In case you haven’t noticed palm oil has made its way into everything now including your daily bread. It is difficult to get away from unless you have the time to examine every label on every purchase. I think that having it wash up on beaches in a raw form gives an opportunity to people to examine the substance and decide if you want it in your diet. It does actually smell like diesel.
Fatbergs on Hoare’s rock?
Gotta love it.
Also the amount of Orangutan carnage caused by felling their natural habitat to manufacture Palm Oil criminal. Can they not use a substitute kinder to nature. It is needlessly put into products that could do without it. Even M&S guilty.
And it is death to your arteries. As well as the environment given how much rainforest has been slashed and burned to make way for its production. Interestingly, nearly every “healthy” spread is full of it, except butter which of course we’re told is unhealthy despite the fact we’ve been eating it since God was a boy.
Mmmmmmm……..fat bergs
Ewwwwww….oily balls.
Balls in your mouth, balls in your mouth, Don’t swim in the ocean you’ll get balls in your mouth….
Found one of these on the shore in Achill last year – a ball about 45cm diameter.
Had a notion it might be ambergris, but it was just fat. Gross!
My brother dragged it up to the house, and left it in the garden where it was gradually rained into mush!
You could a Netflix series out of that story.
@Fiach ..you lead such an interesting life.
“Hoare’s Rock”
lol
just an idea, but might be an idea to explain what an oily fatberg is.
@danny corrigan: your missus
your comment tells me all i need to know about your character: a cowardly, tactless dirtball
@danny corrigan: Accept the burn my friend and don’t be bitter :P
Sunbathing with the other oily fatbergs.
Are you sure it’s not coke? Lol where did the bags of coke wash up this week?
@Linda Hughes: bottles of coke, dear, bottles. Can’t put coke into bags, it’ll eventually seep out.
Cheer up buttercup
Those fat bergs are very good for oily balls.
Fatberg……..probably the best reason in the world to drink bottled water.
Funny how fat bergs and Dublin could have been an completely different story
For some reason “Irish version of Baywatch” comes to mind.
Fatberg…… Probably the best reason in the world to drink bottled water
Better at causing heart attacks that eating pork the whole time, no wonder it is toxic?
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