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Photo by Jason McDonald
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On Saturday, the 23rd of July, the scary and rather gruesome fundraiser that was the Dublin Zombie Walk 2011 took place. From 12 noon onwards, St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin city centre was taken over by the walking dead – the point of which being to raise much-needed funds for two charities; the Irish Cancer Society and the RNLI i.e. a charity fundraiser with a twist!
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| Photo by Jason McDonald |
As grand
marshal of the Walk, I was up bright and early to have my make-up done by the
amazing
Terri Pinnell (the same make up artist from
the Dublin Zombie Walk promotional photo shoot) who transformed me into a zombie beauty queen capable
of leading the walk. Meanwhile, make-up artists were busy in St. Stephen’s
Green transforming the general public into zombies in exchange for a small
donation.
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| Photo by Amy Plant |
The day saw
volunteers dress up as a huge variety of zombies, from “zombie Jesus” to a
zombified bride (complete in beautiful white wedding gown) to zombie toddlers.
There was, of course, an army of zombie killers armed with guns attempting to
restrain the zombie hoard from escaping from Stephen’s
Green
Park and contaminating the streets of
Dublin city.
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| Photo by Ian Keegan |
At 2pm, we
set off from the
Leeson Street
entrance of Stephen’s Green and continued down
Dawson Street and around onto the river
until we arrived at our final destination of Temple Bar. At this point, the
crowd dispersed into the pubs and restaurants around the area to refuel before
the gore-tastic official Dublin Zombie Walk After Party in the Button Factory.
Both
before, during and after the Walk, the place was littered with photographerss all
there to capture the weird and wonderful zombie characters.
