Limerick’s leading lights
A FAMILY-FRIENDLY pageant, a sophisticated firework and lighting show with a specially designed soundtrack, and a concert headlined by Dolores O’Riordan of the Cranberries, accompanied by the Irish Chamber Orchestra, will take place in Limerick on New Year’s Eve as it commences its celebration of its designation as the City of Culture 2014.
The producer and creative director of the opening night, Paul Boland, says there’s huge excitement in Limerick and a real sense of local talent and community participation in the celebrations. Street theatre company, Buí Bolg (from Wexford) will lead a procession through the streets of Limerick along the banks of the river Shannon to the Medieval Quarter. Buí Bolg may not be local but they are collaborating with Limerick’s Honest Art, headed by the versatile Pias McGrath, who is an actor and a playwright as well as a technician.
