Lá Fhéile Phádraig Sona Daoibh – Happy St. Patrick's Day – March 17th

Visitors to the Emerald Isles during the week of March 12 – 17 will be seeing Green as all of Ireland will be celebrating their St. Patrick’s Day Festival.

• Dublin will be celebrating in style with its annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade from Parnell Square North, weaving through the city centre to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. All over the city there’ll be music, street theatre, family carnivals with up to 4000 performers joining the fun.
• Limerick will host SkyFest - a massive fireworks display over the River Shannon. But that’s not all – apart from SkyFest, Limerick will also be hosting SpringFest.
• Galway – things really hot up with performers taking part in the city’s fabulous walking parade.
• Armagh and Down pay tribute to St. Patrick with the largest celebration of the patron saint in Northern Ireland.  Those who prefer the countryside needn’t miss out, you can take part in a St Patrick’s Day walk around St Patrick’s County Down.
• Cork promises to be a city of excitement, with a fiesta of colours and flights of fancy, and
• Belfast becomes a captivating carnival city for the duration.

Most cities, towns and villages across the country will all hold their own St. Patrick’s Day activities and celebrations – big or small – so no matter where you are in the country, you’ll be treated to a delightful dose of Irish tradition and festive spirit…and lots of Guinness.

So if you’re heading to Ireland next week, you can look forward to a lot of Irish ‘craic, ceol agus ól’.   And if the St. Patrick’s Day madness don’t infect you, the rugby fever most certainly will.  Ireland plays Wales and Scotland in the Rugby 6 Nations on March 13th and 20th.

Dublin will be one crazy place next week so if you haven’t booked your accommodation, it might be a good idea to arrange something before you arrive.

Anyone else have feelings about this?