Royals With Cheese

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hen The Whale announced that they were going to have a live screening party of Saturday’s Royal Wedding, there were those in Greystones who couldn’t quite grasp that nettle.

For some, it was just about the most Protestant thing that had ever happened in this once Protestant-dominated little town of ours.

What next? Premier League matches beamed live into Irish pubs? Dirty big British retail giants taking over the local, Guaranteed Irish supermarket chain? Or the UK’s no.1 chemists opening up on our main street…?!

One group, calling themselves Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland, went so far as to erect posters a few days before the big event, screaming, Greystones Against Royal Parasites. Their goal, simply put, is to Smash British Normalisation.

Heavy.

Unfortunately, the People’s Front Of Greystones – or are they The Greystonian People’s Front? – didn’t show up on the big day, as Harry and Meghan walked down the aisle at St George’s Chapel – little live entertainment outside the theate would have added a little frisson of danger to the frocks and fizzy.

Maybe they could have outshouted the six-hour bluster & blarney of US evangelical blabbermouth Michael Curry, a character who, we suspect, might actually have been Lenny Henry’s latest failed attempt at a comedy comeback.

This packed little party turned out to be a grand day out, of course, and outside of all the beautiful people who showed up for the party, just about the entire country’s media were there too, from RTE and TV3 to The Protestant Times and The Mail On Sunday.

Man, it was enough to make devoted royalist Pete O’Neill shed a tear of pure, unadulterated joy.

We wish the happy couple all the love in the world. Until the People’s Popular Front Of Greystones catch up with them, of course.

Thanks to the mighty Eoin O’Mahony for the groovy pics. You can see the full gallery right about here.