{"id":351196,"date":"2026-03-17T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351196\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:29:08","slug":"pictures-ireland-turns-green-as-hundreds-of-thousands-celebrate-st-patricks-day-in-style-page-1-of-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/351196\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTURES: Ireland turns green as hundreds of thousands celebrate St Patrick’s Day in style – Page 1 of 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of\u00a0St Patrick’s Day parades have taken place in cities, towns and villages across the country<\/a> to celebrate Irish culture, heritage and identity. to celebrate Irish culture, heritage and identity.<\/p>\n

The largest parade in Dublin, which was televised by RT\u00c9, featured 12 large floats with over 150 artists and 3,000 participants.<\/p>\n

CLICK NEXT OR USE THE ARROWS FOR\u00a0 MORE PHOTOS FROM THE DUBLIN CITY PARADE<\/p>\n

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All eyes were on the Grand Marshal of the parade, with broadcaster, fashion icon and podcaster Vogue Williams taking the helm this year.<\/p>\n

President Catherine Connolly attended the Dublin parade along with several celebrities and public figures.<\/p>\n

While some parades took place around the country at the weekend, the first parade of St Patrick’s Day kicked off at the stroke of midnight in County Leitrim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The main street of Kinlough was alive with people as they kicked off Ireland\u2019s first St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade of 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hundreds of people poured into the windswept village for what was also the first St. Patrick’s Day parade in its history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m delighted. It was a huge success. I’m very proud of the people of Kinlough for turning out in such numbers, and especially at such a late hour,\u201d said local councillor Justin Warnock.<\/p>\n

The first parade of the year traditionally taken place in Dingle – before dawn –\u00a0 but this year, Kinlough took that crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of\u00a0St Patrick’s Day parades have taken place in cities, towns and villages across the country to celebrate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,63762],"class_list":["post-351196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351196","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=351196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}