‘We need Pride more than ever now': Solidarity and celebration at Cork Pride parade

The Pride Flag is carried at the 2025 Cork Pride Parade route in Cork City on Sunday. Pictures: Larry Cummins

The Pride movement is needed now more than ever, the 2025 Cork Pride parade heard amid mounting concerns that hard-won rights are being eroded.

Organisers of the Cork LGBT+ Pride Festival issued the rallying call on Sunday as an estimated 5,000 people marched in or watched the colourful parade, and its giant rainbow flag, wind its way through the city to the Party at the Port — the climax of the week-long Pride festival, which had as its theme, ‘A fearless future’.