{"id":273473,"date":"2026-01-31T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273473\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:32:09","slug":"i-never-in-my-wildest-dreams-imagined-this-would-happen-grand-marshal-of-wicklow-st-patricks-day-parade-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/273473\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I never in my wildest dreams imagined this would happen\u2019 \u2013 Grand marshal of Wicklow St Patrick\u2019s Day parade selected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Wicklow town stalwart says he is not going to be upholding parade tradition of travelling in a car\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pat Davis has been announced as the Grand Marshall for the upcoming St Patrick\u2019s Day parade in Wicklow town.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/da942d0e-6ac1-4d2a-98b7-f23b326692c1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pat Davis has been announced as the Grand Marshall for the upcoming St Patrick\u2019s Day parade in Wicklow town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Maritime artist Pat Davis, who has been painting his striking murals of visiting sea vessels on the wall of the old East Pier in Wicklow Port for 50 years now, has been bestowed with the honour of leading this year\u2019s St Patrick\u2019s Day parade in Wicklow town as grand marshal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Now retired, Pat worked as a postman for almost 40 years based out of Wicklow, covering the town, Rathnew, Rathdrum and Ashford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wicklow town stalwart says he is not going to be upholding parade tradition of travelling in a car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,4657,43,63762],"class_list":["post-273473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-myles-buchanan","tag-news","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}