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THE ANNUAL ST Patrick’s Day parade through Dublin city is set to be held for the first time in two years, with the annual festival being touted as the biggest ever.
The St Patrick’s Festival 2022 is set to begin on 16 March and last until 20 March, with the flagship parade to be held on Thursday 17 March under the theme of ‘Connections’.
The festival, which had been cancelled the previous two years due to Covid-19, says that there will be “more pageants, more marching bands and more participants than ever before” at the parade.
“Over the last six months, hundreds of Ireland’s most dynamic and innovative performers, musicians, designers, choreographers, pageant engineers, artists and makers have been working on delivering Ireland’s most ambitious street Parade ever, in creativity, scale, length and participant numbers,” said the festival organisers.
The parade will be broadcast live by RTÉ, and will also feature audience interaction elements, according to the festival organisers.
Further details on acts participating in the parade are set to be announced closer to 17 March.
The plans will see the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, transformed into a ‘Festival Quarter’ for the duration of the festival.
The day-to-night urban festival will be held at the heritage site, with a 3,000 capacity main stage, comedy tent and a food and craft village all within the barracks. While daytime events will be free, festival organisers have said that some night events will require a pre-purchased ticket.
Acts set to perform across the five days of the festival include:
“We are so thrilled to bring St. Patrick’s Festival back to the streets of Dublin this coming March,” said Anna McGowan, Interim Director, St. Patrick’s Festival.
“The very best of Ireland’s creative community have come together to present a spectacular programme of events, the biggest, most exciting offering we have ever produced.
Hundreds of artists, arts workers, makers, creators, live events teams and community organisations, drawn from across the nation, will present a magical five days and nights of live and virtual events, from song, story and performance, to film, theatre, tours, food and so much more.
Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland said: “After an absence of two years, it’s wonderful to see the return of St. Patrick’s Festival with in-person events and the parade through our Capital’s streets on March 17th which will include a much-missed international flavour.”
The full festival programme is available on www.stpatricksfestival.ie.
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Looking forward to it, been a long 2 years
When are little children aloud sit in school all day without a mask on their face? Pubs and clubs open now for weeks.
@Colm Vambeck: the end of this month all going to plan
@Colm Vambeck: u could have googled that to be fair
@Colm Vambeck:
*Allowed
It’s also up to the school. Our local one has no mask mandate. Kids are free to wear if they want or not wear if they want.
@Sequoia: its not up to the school as can be seen below article.
@Colm Vambeck: Do you know what the word guidance means?
@Colm Vambeck:
Someone needs to have a word with the principle then.
Great for children. They’ve missed out on 2 years of memories from such occasions. We’ll be going to our local parade.
@Brian Dunne: Ah the memories! Majorettes with mottled blue legs from the cold!
@Brian Dunne: ah yes I remember Patrick’s day as a kid, drunk men, crying and vomiting kids, rude parents pushing kids out if the way so their kid could see, it was wonderful.
@Jason Walsh:
Drunk men crying and vomiting kids???
Or
Drunk men crying, vomiting kids??
Punctuation is important!!
@Jason Walsh: or perhaps, crying and vomiting men, drunk kids…
@Thunder Snowman: This is correct. Now you kids stop getting drunk and get off tiktok or whatever your into now like not talking about Bruno or something.
A great !!
The stench of urine will abound our capitals streets again !!
They’ve had more than enough time now – where’s the public toilets ??
@Self Employed Anarchist: Young people today must have very weak bladders! It wasn’t like that back in my St. Patrick’s Day drinking heyday in the 70′s and 80′s. We could hold it in for hours on end as we drank copious pints and then if you felt the need you just let it flow without leaving the barstool. The pubs smelt something fierce but the streets were cleaner and only a very few laneways were to be avoided. Personal hygiene wasn’t as big a thing back then obviously! These days though it seems to be every five minutes after one pint and they make you to use the loo…
@William Tallon: That is the most boomer comment I think I have ever read! PMSL!!!
Ah lovely a procession of trucks, tractors and slurry tankers in rural Ireland and few frozen kids from the local gaa club frozen and very last in the parade sure its great
Looking forward to it. Good for the city. All the people complaining about the amount of drunks that will be around are probably the same people who were complaining about the pubs being closed for so long. Some people are just not happy unless they’re having a whinge.
@Gerry McCaughey: Says the lad having a whinge! Lol
Haven’t gone in years.
@Anna Carr: so you won’t be missed then
Could we have a firework display return to Dublin
I think I’m more excited than my kids.
Faaaantastic :-) :-)
Proof if ever it was needed that people will whinge about anything.
That was always cold miserable arty farty Sheite anyway !!! But we’ll all be there wehey
That was always cold miserable arty farty shyyte anyway !!! But we’ll all be there wehey
I hope this doesn’t blow up in our faces.
@Karen Delaney: Well that depends! What type of explosives are you planning on using?
That was always cold miserable arty farty Let’s pretend !!! But we’ll all be there anyway
That was always cold miserable arty farty Gic anyway !!! But we’ll all be there wehey
That was always cold miserable arty farty Shysh anyway !!! But we’ll all be there wehey
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