{"id":351096,"date":"2026-03-17T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351096\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:18:07","slug":"county-limerick-towns-st-patricks-day-parade-cancelled-due-to-tragic-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351096\/","title":{"rendered":"County Limerick town&#8217;s St Patrick&#8217;s Day parade cancelled due to &#8216;tragic news&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE ST PATRICK\u2019S Day parade in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bruff<\/a> this afternoon has been called off at short notice due to \u201ctragic news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It was due to start at 2.30pm with participating groups asked to assemble from 2pm in the yard of the national school.<\/p>\n<p>A post on the Bruff Community Page on Facebook at 12.45pm this Tuesday reads: \u201cIn light of some tragic news just reaching us we have taken the decision to cancel today\u2019s parade as a mark of respect. The duck race is also cancelled but we intend to run it at a later date.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/politics\/2039770\/limerick-chamber-demands-immediate-review-of-local-mayoral-legislation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick Chamber demands immediate review of local mayoral legislation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author of the post concludes by saying, \u201cThank you all for your understanding and continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The parade organised by Bruff Grange Meanus Community Council always attracts large numbers of floats and big crowds to the town.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE ST PATRICK\u2019S Day parade in Bruff this afternoon has been called off at short notice due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4587,2177,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-351096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bruff","tag-county-limerick","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351096","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=351096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}