Simon Harris sounded giddy with excitement
Kellie Harrington, wearing her two Olympic gold medals, speaks to the crowd during her homecoming on Seán McDermott street in Dublin . Photograph: Niall Carson/PA WireFrom his plinth in front of them in the middle of O’Connell Street, big Jim Larkin’s arms were raised aloft.Daniel Wiffen sings and Kellie Harrington takes the biscuit at Irish Olympic homecomingHard to believe this was the first time Dublin laid on a civic reception for an Irish team returning from the Olympic Games.
The crowd started arriving well in advance of the advertised start. It was a hot, humid day and the long wait to see the team took its toll on some spectators as the afternoon unfolded and they wilted in the heat.told us he was “trying not to do a Shane Ross and get in all the photos”) and a slightly star-struck Integration Minister,The Taoiseach sounded giddy with excitement, gulping for breath as he rattled out words at Olympian speed.
There may have been four gold medal winners in O’Connell Street on Monday afternoon but the most gold by a large margin was around the Lord Mayor’s neck. James Geoghegan was possibly even more hyped-up than Harris. He took the microphone and started bellowing Olé, Óle, Olé until the politicians were finally ushered away.
“Thank you for coming” he shouted to the fans happily basking in the glow of the team’s record success. “I just wanted to say ... Olé, Olé, Olé ...”Aaron Keating from Tallaght was wrapped in the Tricolour he got when he made his First Communion. “I got everyone to sign it and I’ve brought it to loads of places since then. I write them on to the flag,” he said, pointing to signatures from Spike Island and the Titanic. All the Shamrock Rovers players have signed it too.
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