{"id":351146,"date":"2026-03-17T17:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351146\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:53:17","slug":"fine-weather-and-downpours-at-parades-around-ireland-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351146\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine weather and downpours at parades around Ireland \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

In many locations around Ireland, it was a day of dodging showers. A downpour in Galway ended just before the parade began. The rain held off in Cork, but puppet-watchers and float-fanciers had to endure blustery conditions. In the pictures below, the people of Bantry grin valiantly in what look like quintessentially miserable St Patrick\u2019s Day<\/a> conditions. In Dublin, the sun shone on parade grand marshal Vogue Williams<\/a> and a few hundred thousand others. And if you weren\u2019t too exposed to the wind or rain, temperatures were mild for March 17th, hitting 14 degrees in many towns and cities as Ireland reached peak parade. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe St Patrick’s Day parade in Kilkenny. Photograph: Liam Murphy \"KilkennyKilkenny parade. Photograph: Liam Murphy \"PerformersPerformers from Polish Arts Festival in Limerick City. Photograph: Don Moloney \"DúnD\u00fan Laoghaire. Photograph: Mark Stedman \"SistersSisters Imogen (6) and Elodie Barry (8) in D\u00fan Laoghaire. Photograph: Mark Stedman \"Eight-year-oldsEight-year-olds Kaizen Aquino and Hillary Tapiwan watch the D\u00fan Laoghaire parade. Photograph: Mark Stedman \"MembersMembers of the local men\u2019s shed in the D\u00fan Laoghaire St Patrick\u2019s Day Parade. Photograph: Mark Stedman \"TaekwondoTaekwondo Tigers in the D\u00fan Laoghaire parade. Photograph: Mark Stedman \"TwinsTwins Se\u00e1n\u00edn and D\u00e1ith\u00ed Fortune of Cavan Gaels GAA club in the Cavan town parade. Photograph: Lorraine Teevan \"CatherineCatherine Connolly impersonator at the Galway parade. Photograph: Hany Marzouk \"EnjoyingEnjoying the Bantry parade, despite some wet weather, was Se\u00e1n Harnedy from Caheragh. Photograph: Andy Gibson \"MichaelMichael and Michaela Lebe from Germany at the Bantry parade. Photograph: Andy Gibson <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In many locations around Ireland, it was a day of dodging showers. A downpour in Galway ended just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,8679,43,63762,12460],"class_list":["post-351146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-moran","tag-news","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-vogue-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351146","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=351146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}