Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]She sure looks like she would prefer to be somewhere else! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 4 Nov 2018, at 00:31, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > This is a photograph I took at the Dublin count for the Irish Presidential > election last weekend. Mary Lou McDonald was waiting to explain her > party's performance at an interview with RTE, the Irish national TV > broadcaster. I was positioned just beside the TV camera. > > She took over earlier this year from Gerry Adams as President of the Sinn > F?in party which is trying to shake off its old paramilitary IRA > associations by emphasizing its left wing and youth credentials. > Unfortunately, its choice as Presidential candidate Liadh Ni Riada made > some errors, as well as going up against Michael D. Higgins - the popular > poet and current President who was seeking re-election. > > As a result, Ni Riada garnered only a miserable fourth place with 6.8% of > the vote while the re-elected President Higgins got 55.8% and romped home. > We have him for another seven years for better or verse... Anyway, Mary > Lou knew she was going to get roasted in the interview and her face > reflects this anticipation. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Dublin/Mary+Lou+McD.jpg.html > > Douglas > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information