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A miserable day for a balloon

Martina Purdy Martina Purdy | 13:33 UK time, Monday, 6 August 2007

The Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was grounded by bad weather yesterday. Mr Adams was supposed to go up in a hot air balloon to officially launch Feile 2007 (the West Belfast Festival). But sadly the wet weather proved too much. I'm told however that the balloon did go up five hours late, still moored, and without Mr Adams.

Hopefully this is not a portent of Feile 2007, not least because I'm chairing West Belfast Talks Back on Wednesday. The panel includes two Executive ministers, Catriona Ruane, Sinn Fein education minister, and Edwin Poots, the culture minister, along with columnist Eoghan Harris, the newly appointed Irish Senator, and Sir Desmond Rea, chairman of the Policing Board.

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  • At 09:14 PM on 06 Aug 2007,
  • RJ wrote:

It's hard to avoid the obvious joke about enough hot air to put 20 balloons up in any weather. So I won't.

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