False alarm

My heart skipped a beat on my way to the 40 Foot and I thought for a fraction of a second that I may have stumbled across some 21st century version of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple.

Thankfully the Dun Laoghaire county council wouldn't tolerate mass suicides in its revamped sea front green spaces.

No, this little gathering seemed to be practicing some sort of meditation centered around internalizing the pain of feeding the midges. 

Good luck to them. I know how much meditation I'd be capable of in the presence of midges...