Green Party leader Eamon Ryan got a major reaction online after sharing a throwback pic of him during a 1987 trip to China.
The Dublin TD spent St Patrick's weekend in China and shared updates with his Twitter followers while he visited Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. On Saturday he reminisced from his first trip to the country when he was in his 20's and posted a photo of him on a bicycle in Beijing.
He said: "Back in 1987 I travelled through China on my own. I remember cycling with twenty people abreast along Tiananmen Square, walking the great wall and then taking the trans-siberian train home. I loved it all."