There will be more musical instruments than cars in parts of Belfast city centre during the first week of August.<\/p>\n
Dozens of streets will be closed to traffic during the world’s largest festival of Irish music and dance.<\/p>\n
Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann – the all-Ireland Fleadh – is being held in Belfast for the first time from 2-9 August.<\/p>\n
A wide area from the front of City Hall, past Castlecourt Shopping Centre to the Ulster University campus on York Street will become a car-free zone.<\/p>\n
The road closures are for safety reasons, with Belfast City Council saying it expects about 800,000 visitors to the city.<\/p>\n
Lord Mayor R\u00f3is-M\u00e1ire Donnelly said: “We want everyone to enjoy the event, with as little disruption as possible.<\/p>\n
“Our message is simple – don’t drive into the city centre. Walk, cycle or use public transport instead and make sure to leave extra time for your journey, whatever your plans.”<\/p>\n
Three park-and-ride facilities, charged at \u00a310 per day, will be available outside Belfast:<\/p>\n
Eikon Exhibition Centre, close to the M1<\/p>\n
Giant’s Park, close to M2<\/p>\n
Belfast Harbour, close to M3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be more musical instruments than cars in parts of Belfast city centre during the first week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653929","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=653929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}