O'Connell Bridge

You have like the Mary Wallopers in like an abandoned house slash pub, sometimes looks like a recording studio.

You've people on O'Connell Bridge playing, people sitting in piers near the sea off the coast of Donegal, someone jumping into the lift behind a musician playing on O'Connell Bridge.

So I guess you were keen to situate the music and, you know, not just the guy sitting on a piano staring into space moodily.

Yeah, we always wanted to be out among the people and out in sort of living spaces.

Where

was it? It was on the Westmoreland Street bus stop, the first bus stop as you walk towards O'Connell Bridge.

I was getting on the 11B.

Where's that towards? Where's that towards? That's towards Phoenix Park.

We met him in the middle of O'Connell Street.

We kept strolling on down to across O'Connell Bridge into the south inner city and ended up on the edge of Temple Bar and it seemed like the perfect spot to ask Sean Michael the question, does hospitality in the area keep the street cleaners busy?

Yes.

So, you know, you've got your fast foods where they'll come out, which are not necessarily eaten inside.

This is before I had actually moved over for college.

And by the way, the O'Connell Bridge is forming part of the tour as well, isn't it? It is O'Connell

Street.

I have this incredible clipping from the Irish Times from November 1960 when it's looking at the funeral procession for the Irish soldiers who were killed in the Congo.

Republicans and Free Staters were waging civil war.

On a rooftop near O'Connell Bridge, a Republican sniper lay watching.

Beside him lay his rifle, and over his shoulders was slung a pair of field glasses, binoculars.

His face was the face of a student, thin, an ascetic, but the eyes had the cold gleam of the fanatic.

Yeah.

So the last we know, uh, we can say, uh, the last reported sighting of Antoinette alive is walking down O'Connell Street, um, heading towards O'Connell Bridge.

Mm-hmm.

And what happens next, uh, to this day, is a mystery.

Yeah, it was awesome as part of our NSC's preview talking about the Giants.

But we will make sure we come along and see yourself, Shane, Craig, and the rest of the guys as part of the Irish NFL show at the Arlington Hotel just by O'Connell Bridge.

Saturday, 12 o'clock on the day of the game.

It's the 29th, isn't it? 29th of August.

I mean, he was a very young man.

Arthur Fields, the photographer who would stand on the O'Connell Bridge snapping people as they went by, he took an image of Charlie Kerens.

And that someone as young as that, an IRA chief of staff, was perhaps indicative of how up against it the organisation was.

Now for Thomas and Albert Pierpoint, this was just another job, but the security dimensions of the visit were heightened to unprecedented levels.