#aras11 <Norris put’s his wellie’s on for Ballinasloes’s Horse Fair> @oconnellhugh ah-shure:he's probably just a yng fella
5 Oct 2011 16:44

#aras11 <Norris put’s his wellie’s on for Ballinasloes’s Horse Fair> ah-shure:he's probably just a yng fella 

or a fella from Cyprus? No harm in that.
http://norrisforpresident.ie/news/david-norris-put’s-his-wellie’s-on-for-ballinasloes’s-annual-horse-fair/
spearheading a change in the English language.
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Correct version:
Norris puts his wellies on for Ballinasloe's Horse Fair.
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Using the full phrase "Wellington boots" would have been more appropriate; given that the current Agricultural Society Show and related fair at Ballinasloe was initially established and promoted by Richard Le Poer Trench, who was the associate, friend and secretary to another Irishman Arthur Wellesley.

Field Marshall Wellesley to be precise. The Irish chap who came over here to the Benelux and who finally beat Napoleon? Known here in the lowlands as the Prins van Waterloo, and in the English-language, the Duke of ......?

Further reading & research at: http://youtu.be/85yMOPKR94M
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oh look: got email from papa about a dead man.haha: there'll be noone here to write to them when I croak #aras11 <Norris put’s his wellie’s on for Ballinasloes’s Horse Fair> @oconnellhugh ah-shure:he's probably just a yng fella #aras11 @gavreilly Dana says she'll quit US-allegiance <if People demand it>: Dana, "Queen Sheeveen" USC§1481(b)
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