World | Tony Blair Irish Greet Blair Book ... With Shoes, Eggs Anti-war protesters show up for Dublin book-signing By Polly Davis Doig Posted Sep 4, 2010 8:22 AM CDT Copied Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, right, attends a public book signing at Eason book store in Dublin, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Niall Carson, pool) Tony Blair may well wish he'd been drinking for today's book-signing in Dublin: Several hundred anti-war protesters awaited the former PM as he arrived at a bookstore in the city center, hurling everything from epithets to shoes, eggs, and a bottle, reports the Irish Times. The book-signing was the first since Blair released his memoirs this week, and the Times notes that those hoping for his John Hancock outnumbered the shoeless by 3 to 1. Read These Next The tiny bite tasted horrible—and gave her botulism. Trump is 'not happy with the UK' over his Persian Gulf push. In a remote Polish forest, researchers find lost medieval town. Here's where Sean Penn was on Oscars night. Report an error