After the very busy week, we had a quiet day. We spent most of the day at home, although we took Aisling shopping (again) and to play football in a nearby field. That evening, Gordon and I went to the Laughter Lounge, a comedy club, with Paula, Hubert and Orla. There were four comedians plus the MC, and it was hilarious. We thought we might have to translate some jokes for Gordon, but there were just a couple of words that he wasn't familiar with. There were lots of jokes about the recession, Barack Obama (well, not so much Obama himself, more people's reactions to him), and of course, about getting drunk. After the show we went to a pub called MacTorcaills.With our quiet day, we missed a big event in Dublin. Apparently over 100,000 people showed up for a protest march, expressing their displeasure with the current state of the economy and the government's handling of the situation, including what many people see as a fairly lax response to questionable or even likely criminal behavior by banks during the boom. The example most under discussion while we were there was Anglo Irish Bank, the details of which can be found in a Wall Street Journal article.
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