From Lady Gaga hanging out with Julian Assange to Tupac Shakur’s Coachella performance, here’s our shortlist of the stranger celebrity and political encounters of the year.
It’s the first anniversary of the British royal couple’s nuptials today. Whether you were really interested or not, there are a few moments that still linger in the mind…
The Queen’s birthday celebrations included a right royal parade and her traditional honours list which this year includes the likes of Colin Firth and Bruce Forsyth.
The new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will eventually jet off somewhere “hot and sunny” after yesterday’s historic event which included a nun in trainers, a cartwheeling clergyman and plenty of partying.
IRELAND ISN’T GENERALLY known as a country of protesters but in recent months rallies against abortion legislation and ongoing austerity have become more common.
A new tactic has brought demonstrators to the the homes of politicians, seen most recently outside Enda Kenny’s Castlebar house. The Irish Independent reports that 15 people – some of them clad in white shawls and wearing skeleton masks.
Speaking in Cork at the weekend, Sinn Féin’s deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald condemned the practice. According to the Irish Examiner she urged campaigners against household and water charges not to present themselves at the family home of a politician.
But at the same meeting one demonstrator argued, “These people have brought the war to every single home and family in this country. We’re bringing the war right back to them.”
What do you think? Should protesters demonstrate outside politicians’ homes?
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