St Patrick's Day

Grand Marshals, comedians Jason Byrne and Deirdre O'Kane wave to the crowds on Dame Street during the St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday 17 ...

Limerick’s St Patrick’s Day Festival will take place from March 17 to 20. Many pubs and clubs are hosting gigs, discos, comedy clubs to name a few. A band will play at the Old Courthouse from 2pm, and “ with everyone dressing up for the day, there will be lots of colour and fun”. There will also be a photo booth at Market Square for spectators and their families to get a commemorative picture of St Patrick’s Day 2022. On Sunday, the 50th International Band Championship will take place on the streets of Limerick. Competitors from Ireland, Europe and America will be after the title of International Band Champions. The theme of this year’s parade is 'Belonging and Identity', with a designated route for people with sensory issues, like in Tralee. Tralee has adopted a similar theme for their parade with ‘Let’s go the Green Way’. It will celebrate both sustainability and the upcoming completion of a Greenway from Tralee to Fenit. There will be a ‘Kids Funs zone’ in the area too, with a disco and games on March 17 from 2pm to 6pm. Organisers for the event said: “This area will be zoned for those individuals with sensory processing challenges along with their families to enjoy the parade in a supportive environment.” A number of marching bands and pageantry groups will be taking part, with the likes of inclusion and superheroes of the pandemic celebrated. Starting off with the capital, the National St Patrick’s Day Parade is back, with the theme of ‘Connections/Naisc’. It will kick off from Parnell Square and march up to the junction between Cuffe Street and Kevin Street. A new addition to this year’s St Patrick’s Day celebration is the Festival Quarter at the National Museum of Ireland in Collins Barracks. It runs from March 16 to 20 and showcases music, comedy, storytelling, crafts, food and much more.

Across Cork, towns are gearing up to celebrate Paddy's Day again with plenty of themes, music and parades planned around the county. In Cork city, the streets ...

But the parade committee have promised to bring the Paddy’s Day cheer “bigger and better than ever in 2023.” There will be prizes for best decorated commercial and residential premises. Following the Parade will be music by Joe and Richie. Live music will then take place in the promenade from 3.30 until the fireworks at approx 7.30pm. Prizes will be given out including for longest beard, biggest sprig of shamrock and best decorated tractor. Cobh Trad Band and Commodore Male Voice Choir will play on stage in the town centre at 2pm until our parade starts at 3pm.

St Patrick's day is celebrated across the world and brings together a rich culture and history. Often St Patrick's day can be overshadowed with the stereotype of heavy drinking, Drinkaware wants to bring the Irish Public on a journey to shift this outdated ...

'Both overseas and domestic visitors to our cities and towns will stay in hotels and B&Bs, eat in restaurants, drink in bars, avail of transport and spend in ...

But we may not be aware of the impact of these St. Patrick’s Day visits for our tourism industry. The in-person nature of the visits also allowed for meaningful relationships to be developed overseas. Of course, the success of The Gathering cannot be attributed just to ministerial visits. We are all familiar with the image of the Taoiseach presenting a bowl of shamrock to the US president in the White House. We are also aware of the ministerial overseas visits that take place over the St. Patrick’s Day period. The day itself offers a unique opportunity to put Ireland on the global stage and to raise the awareness of the country as an attractive destination for overseas visitors. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. The 2012 overseas visits provide a clear example of impact. In 2014, the publicity received from the St. Patrick’s Day Festival was worth an equivalent of €7 million in advertising value and reached an audience of over 300 million people. While global reach is demonstrated in the examples above, it can also be facilitated by ministerial visits overseas on St. Patrick’s Day. Please review their details and accept them to load the content. In 2015, for example, Ireland welcomed broadcasters, bloggers and print journalists from European countries, the United States and Canada, among others, who travelled to Ireland to cover the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. It was estimated that the international media had an audience reach in the hundreds of millions. The tourism industry in Ireland is seasonal in nature.

Laura Slattery: Lighting up landmarks in green is a brilliant idea – just not when there's a war in Europe.

The Taoiseach spent Sunday morning politely fielding the BBC’s questions about Irish neutrality, stressing that Ireland was not politically or morally neutral on Ukraine and suggesting that Irish military neutrality would be something to “reflect on” in future. (Compensation is typically made to some global attractions for taking part.) Lighting up a monument in lurid, Kermit-esque green does not say very much if you think about it, but it looks great on an As a consequence of war in Europe, St Patrick’s Day will not be as green as usual this year. It had been due to be attended by Minister for Tourism Catherine Martin and Tourism Ireland chief executive Niall Gibbons. Many world-famous monuments, from the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building, have only just been lit in Ukrainian colours after all. Others with unbroken links to Russia will likely stick to their standard illuminations rather than express solidarity with a country Vladimir Putin is attempting to shell out of existence.

On March 17, millions of Americans will eat corned beef and cabbage and drink themselves into a stupor, believing that they are commemorating St. Patrick.

He is the author of several books on distilled spirits and the cocktail culture, as well as three novels. Corned beef and cabbage is just as Irish as veal parmesan is Italian, although bacon and cabbage is a national dish, and both slow-cooked stews and roasts are typical of feast days. If your exposure to Irish cuisine is confined to March 17, you’d be shocked during a visit to Ireland: on the upper levels, that country’s cooking is as refined as anything found in France. The best chefs are obsessive about tracing the source of their ingredients, and most have personal relationships with their purveyors. St. Patrick’s Day is a national holiday in both Ireland and Northern Ireland and was traditionally a solemn feast day. The holiday was hijacked by Americans, in an eerie replay of the saint’s kidnapping, and transformed into a day of blind excess. On March 17, millions of Americans will eat corned beef and cabbage and drink themselves into a stupor, believing that they are commemorating St. Patrick. In fact, there’s a wide gap between the authentic Irish celebration and the way the day has been transformed by real and would-be Irish Americans.