Then up close you could see it looked a little more like plain garbage. We also attended a neat community group's theater of the oppressed skit about hydrofracking, which is apparently coming to Ireland. And, on Saturday night, we saw a performance involving a 30-foot-tall metal dragon which paraded through downtown Galway with musicians playing techno rock opera on its back. When it arrived at the Spanish Arch, several acrobats on those bouncy stilts did things on their stilts involving sword-fighting, somersaults, jumping rope, and hanging from various parts of the dragon. Then each of the scales along the dragon's neck and back shot off fireworks.    Co Galway, Ireland -- 7/18/2014