Dragon of Shandon ready for fright night
THIS Halloween night, while the witches of Cork city are flying down the Grand Parade on their broomsticks, the Dragon of Shandon will also be abroad.
A 36-foot, fully-articulated puppet, with a pair of jaws on him that would put a T-Rex in the half-penny place, the dragon has been brought to life through the powers of dark magic and sellotape. Its creation is also down to the combined efforts of the Cork Community Art Link Project, a team of artists and technicians who have been filling the streets of Shandon with assorted skeletons, ghosts and goblins for the past seven years.
