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Caroline McDonagh has been appointed the new director for the St Patrick’s Day parade in Galway city, taking over the role from Craig Flaherty who was the director for the past three years.

Thousands lined the streets of Kilkenny for what was one of the most successful St Patrick’s Day events ever to have taken place in the city in recent years.

An uplifting feast of colour, live music, and entertainment drew the crowds out onto the streets of Athlone yesterday, St Patrick’s Day, for one of the biggest and brightest parades the town has seen.

The St Patrick’s Day parade in Kilkenny is shaping up to be just one exciting part of an action-packed day in the city.

This year the St Patrick’s Day celebrations will start early and the organisers have created a programme of events in the run up to the day.

The prize-giving ceremony for this year’s St Patrick’s Day festivities takes place this evening, Friday March 26, at 8pm in the Greville Arms Hotel, with sponsors and parade participants welcome to attend.

As part of their heritage awareness programme, Athlone Architectural Heritage Group entered a float in the 2010 St Patrick’s Day Parade, commemorating the hardship endured by the citizens who had to reside in the town’s workhouse during the Great Famine.

This year’s St Patrick’s day parade provided a massive boost to Kilkenny city with hundreds of people turning out to watch the parade ,which contained over 40 different participating groups, floats and clubs.

The Athlone St Patrick’s Day Parade Committee have announced a full schedule of events for St Patrick’s Day this year, and now all they need are the people of Athlone to come out and support the events.

St Patrick’s Day in Galway will not be a one day celebration of all things Irish, it will be a five-day celebration of music, art, theatre carnival and all that is great about Galway.