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

PopeBuckfastXVI · 02-07-2010 05:45PM

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:

JayMcD · 02-07-2010 05:47PM

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.

PopeBuckfastXVI · 02-07-2010 06:02PM

JayMcD wrote: »

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

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

LadyMayBelle · 03-07-2010 01:06PM

So..this is happening??

redsteveireland · 03-07-2010 05:47PM

Did this happen or what? Any videos?

DeepSleeper · 03-07-2010 05:53PM

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

TheCosmicFrog · 03-07-2010 07:30PM

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:

Mrs OBumble · 03-07-2010 08:58PM

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).

Joe_row_sef · 03-07-2010 10:19PM

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

mikom · 03-07-2010 10:43PM

JustMary wrote: »

Clr Padraic Conneelly got squirted on the back

Wouldn't be the first time....

Joe_row_sef · 03-07-2010 10:45PM

mikom wrote: »

Wouldn't be the first time....

hahaha..:D

Steyr · 04-07-2010 02:02AM

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