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Who's going to Galway's Great Water Fight?

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    #32
    PopeBuckfastXVI
    Registered Users Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭PopeBuckfastXVI


    JayMcD wrote: »
    So, your saying that some galway residents need to be hit with a few soap filled water ballons to be cleaned?

    you gonna bring a bang of lime too?

    Yep, and nope, much as I dislike hippies, killing them and burying them in shallow graves with lime is probably a step too far... I suppose... :pac:


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    #33
    JayMcD
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    PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »
    , killing them and burying them in shallow graves with lime is probably a step too far... I suppose... :pac:

    Think shower and lime, prison style, not killing them.


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    #34
    PopeBuckfastXVI
    Registered Users Posts: 5,155 ✭✭✭PopeBuckfastXVI


    JayMcD wrote: »
    Think shower and lime, prison style, not killing them.

    D'Oh! Yes definitely some sort of delousing agent is required!


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    #35
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    So..this is happening??


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    #36
    redsteveireland
    Registered Users Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭redsteveireland


    Did this happen or what? Any videos?


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    #37
    DeepSleeper
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    It sure did ! I wasn't involved, but a few hundred teenagers got into the whole thing and got quite wet in the process... Sales of large bottles of water in the shops around Eyre Sq must have hit record levels! Lots of bemused tourists and a few gardaí looking on...:D


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    #38
    TheCosmicFrog
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    Yup, it happened. Pretty hilarious and they got a great, sunny day for it.

    My friend took a few photos, I'll see if she got any good ones. I took this one anyway, just shows how packed Eyre Square was:

    SP_A0203.jpg


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    #39
    Mrs OBumble
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    I watched until about 1:15: good craic, as far as I could see.

    The gardai were watchful, and told a few folks to calm down, but otherwise not busy.

    The participants were pretty disciplined about only shooting at folks who were clearly participating: the only I saw exceptions were one middle-aged woman shopper who walked thru the Square by the stairs and managed to look incredibly grumpy about getting a tiny bit of cross-fired spray on her, and Clr Padraic Conneelly who deliberately chose to walk right through the thick of it (the path through the middle of the green bit from the bus-stop side to outside the Skeff) - he got squirted on the back but it would have been gone in 5 mins if he'd stayed in the sun. No doubt he'll be in the papers next week telling everyone that he and hundreds of elderly people were drenched and terrorised.

    (That said, I left at 1:15 ... don't know how it ended).


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    #40
    Joe_row_sef
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    Was down there! Was great fun. Couple of hundred made it down. (3 or 4 i was told) People of all shapes and sizes!

    The above photo was taken towards the end.

    It was cool to see people playing by the rules. Also the park was spotless afterwards. That photo shows a couple of full bin bags under a tree (dead centre)
    Nice to see people instantly jumping on the forum predicting nightmares, poor turn up and hassle from the law!! But you'll always have the naysayers!

    I found it quite funny that Cllr. Conneely needed to walk through it mid battle. You think he'd leave them be.


    Just found this group..has loads of great photos on it


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    #41
    mikom
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    JustMary wrote: »
    Clr Padraic Conneelly got squirted on the back

    Wouldn't be the first time....


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    #42
    Joe_row_sef
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    mikom wrote: »
    Wouldn't be the first time....

    hahaha..:D


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    #43
    Steyr
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    JustMary wrote: »
    the only I saw exceptions were one middle-aged woman shopper who walked thru the Square by the stairs and managed to look incredibly grumpy about getting a tiny bit of cross-fired spray on her


    Her? Linked from the FB Page, Not my pic.

    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6447225&op=2&o=global&view=global&subj=135576619803161&id=641682221


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    #44
    dloob
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    Expect a grim faced Cllr. Conneely pointing at the wet mark on his jacket to be in all local the papers during the week.


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    #45
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    JustMary wrote: »
    Clr Padraic Conneelly who deliberately chose to walk right through the thick of it ...
    He would!!

    *sigh*

    That man!!! >.<


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    #46
    Flojo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,172 ✭✭✭Flojo


    Awww man I am so raging I missed it. :(


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