{"id":523795,"date":"2026-03-09T03:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523795\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:59:25","slug":"in-photos-ottawa-celebrates-st-patricks-day-parade-for-the-first-time-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523795\/","title":{"rendered":"In photos: Ottawa celebrates St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade for the first time in six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/charlatan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-01-1-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney tips his hat as he wraps up his closing speech at the St. Patrick&#039;s Day parade in the ByWard Market on March 7. [Photo by Nathan Cox\/the Charlatan]\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/St.-Paddys-01-1-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"St. Paddys-01 (1)\"\/><\/a>Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney tips his hat as he wraps up his closing speech at the St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade in the ByWard Market on March 7. [Photo by Nathan Cox\/the Charlatan]<\/p>\n<p>St. Patrick\u2019s Day happens every March 17, but observers got an early look at the St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade in downtown Ottawa on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people and dozens of floats closed down the roads leading into the historically Irish ByWard Market, celebrating Ottawa\u2019s rich Irish culture.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning at 12 p.m. outside of the Supreme Court of Canada, the parade featured the Irish Ambassador to Canada, John Concannon, Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and many Ottawa city councillors.<\/p>\n<p>From bagpipes to flags, attendees dressed out in green and gold to bask in the parade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-121673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-St.-Paddys-24-min-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\"  \/>An Irish family sits atop a float, dressed for the occasion. [Photo by Nathan Cox \/the Charlatan]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney tips his hat as he wraps up his closing speech at the St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-523795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}