St Patrick’s Festival in Dublin will look to the future when it celebrates a 21st birthday next month.

Once known as the World Street Performance Championship, it’s now the Laya Healthcare City Spectacular. Enchanted by the show for years, Ellie O’Byrne wanted to know what road leads you to earning your living as a professional contortionist, unicyclist or iron bender.

Broadcaster and rugby pundit George Hook has agreed to line out as grand marshall for the St Patrick’s Dayparade in his native city.

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This year’s St Patrick’s Festival has yet to take place, but plans for next year’s event are already under way.

Train commuters have been warned of revised Saturday schedules from Cork, Limerick and Tralee to Dublin, following a multi-million euro investment by Iarnród Éireann in line improvement works.

Cork has topped a list of under-rated cities that tourists should see in their lifetime.

AS we all know, St Patrick’s Day was last week and we were all able to celebrate our Irishness once again. It’s a festival celebrated globally and we, the Irish, should be honoured to have a festival celebrated so universally.

With the country basking in spring sunshine and sporting success, the St Patrick’s festival got off to an early start filled with craic, ceoil — and curry.

St Patrick’s Day parades bring out the best in our towns and cities,Richard Fitzpatrick reports.

Free meals — vegetarian curry — will be provided at Grand Parade, Cork, from 1pm tomorrow, as part of the Feed the City initiative.

One of the few Irish St Patrick’s Day celebrations that matches the splendour of those in America, a mix of paint, performances, pageantry, parades and parties, promises to make this year’s Dublin festival one of the most spectacular ever.

Cork City’s St Patrick’s Festival of music, fun, and food kicks off today in a three-day spree expected to attract 100,000 spectators.

The organisers of Cork’s St Patrick’s Festival have launched a robust defence of the event, insisting that it’s a safe, family-friendly event which prohibits the promotion of alcohol.

There will be such a thing as a free lunch at the St Patrick’s Festival in Cork, as the city will be serving free vegetarian curry to up to 5,000 hungry visitors as part of a sustainable eating initiative.

In a year that saw nearly 5,000 official events held for The Gathering — not to mention countless unofficial events — there were five in particular that captured the public’s imagination.

The mayor of San Francisco Edwin Mah Lee served as grand marshal at the Cork St Patrick’s Day parade yesterday, making his first return visit to Leeside, having initially toured the city in 1969 as a high school student.

A giant Irish-knit jumper and the world’s biggest raggy doll were among the spectacular sights and sounds at the annual St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin.

FLYING 3,000 miles to drown the shamrock, blurt out the cúpla focail and watch a St Patrick’s Day parade seems a strange way for an Irish holidaymaker to spend hundreds of euro.

Donal Hickey previews the events set to mark St Patrick’s Day

Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring has today announced funding of €2.6m for 34 national festivals taking place all around Ireland this year.

Senator Eamonn Coghlan yesterday found the perfect opportunity to help promote his &St Patrick’s Festival 5k and Family Fun Run — in tandem with his mission to improve the physical fitness of the younger generation — when he met a group of transition students from Presentation College, Terenure on a field trip to Government Buildings.

THE heart of Dublin was transformed into a sea of green leprechaun hats and tricolours as hundreds of thousands thronged the Irish capital for the famous St Patrick’s Day parade.

The heart of Dublin was transformed into a sea of green leprechaun hats and tricolours as hundreds of thousands thronged the capital for the famous St Patrick’s Day parade.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will celebrate his first St Patrick’s Day in office at The White House with US President Barack Obama as thousands throng Dublin for the world-famous parade.

AN Oscar-winning animator has added a new dimension to Cork’s St Patrick’s Festival as part of a new reinterpretation of the ancient tale of our patron saint.

PARENTS have been warned to be extra vigilant this St Patrick’s Day over fears children as young as 12 will celebrate the day with alcohol.

U2 frontman Bono today revealed one of the big disappointments of his younger years – when a piano was taken from his grandmother’s house.

Former goalkeeper Packie Bonner will lead a green army through the streets of the capital this month at the annual St Patrick’s Day parade.

TIME to get the green face paint ready. St Patrick’s Day is less than a month away and revellers were yesterday promised a feast of events to mark the event.

TOURISM Ireland is to launch a multi-million euro marketing campaign next year including a “Battle for Britain” in a bid to reverse a 12% decline in tourist numbers during 2009.

CORK city must be much more aggressive promoting itself as a tourist destination, new figures show.

MORE than 675,000 people from home and abroad lined the streets of Dublin for one of the world’s most colourful St Patrick’s Day parades.

ABOUT three people will die by drowning over the coming bank holiday weekend, the state’s water safety watchdog has warned.

YES, Matt Cooper (July 20) is spot-on. Dublin, of course, gets everything. It gets Government offices that contribute no commercial rates at a cost of more than €27 million to Dublin City Council last year alone.

WORLDWIDE celebrations for St Patrick’s Day could face disruption after the Catholic Church decided to move the Irish patron saint’s feast day.

DESPITE the competing sporting attractions of rugby, GAA and cricket and variable weather conditions, several hundred thousand turned out in Dublin on Saturday to partake in the annual St Patrick’s Day festivities.

ARCTIC conditions brought a cold finish to the national holiday weekend as biting winds caused disruption to some travel arrangements and festivities.

Thousands of Irish eyes will light up tonight at a glittering firework display over Dublin’s Docklands.

St Patrick’s Day may be an annual event – but organisers of the Dublin celebration are already planning next year’s celebrations.

It is estimated that over a million visitors will be in Dublin later today to enjoy the St Patrick’s Day Festivities.

Adults who buy alcohol for teens during the St Patrick’s Festival will be fuelling underage drinking, it was claimed today.

PÁDRAIG Ó CUANACHÁIN’s letter (Irish Examiner, March 10) seeks clarification from Reform on some of the points he makes.

THE chief executive of the St Patrick’s Festival in Dublin yesterday said urgent action was needed to prevent the parade being marred by drunken disorder or a repeat of the violence surrounding the ‘Love Ulster’ parade nine days ago.