{"id":477531,"date":"2026-03-15T21:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477531\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T21:12:11","slug":"st-patricks-day-parade-brings-colour-and-dance-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/477531\/","title":{"rendered":"St Patrick&#8217;s Day parade brings colour and dance to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The St Patrick&#8217;s Day parade brought tens of thousands into central London as performers, dancers and community groups travelled from Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Irish county associations, marching bands and vibrant floats filled Piccadilly and Whitehall for the one and half mile procession led by Irish writer and broadcaster Emma Dabiri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square for a free afternoon festival with live music, traditional dance and cultural displays celebrating London&#8217;s Irish community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2rd2yn5njo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Organisers said more than 50,000 people typically attend the event<\/a>, with road closures across the West End throughout the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St Patrick&#8217;s Day parade brought tens of thousands into central London as performers, dancers and community groups&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}