Michelle Downey from the Downey Group said businesses have been gearing up and working to get ready for the big week. <\/p>\n
“Fleadh fever has arrived in Belfast,” she said. <\/p>\n
“We are planning for St Patrick’s Day every day for eight days, so if that happens it will be fantastic.”<\/p>\n
John Lavery of Fish City said you “could feel the excitement in the air” and that there was a “vibrancy” in Belfast.<\/p>\n
He said he had put “substantial” investment in place, and had spent “tens of thousands of pounds getting ready for this”.<\/p>\n
“It needs to be successful,” he added.<\/p>\n
Emily Sparling, of Peter Keegan’s Bar in Belfast, said it had made a \u00a360,000 investment and had 25 extra staff “across the board” for the event.<\/p>\n
“Preparations have been good, we have just loaded around 100 kegs of Guinness in, so we are ready,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We are expecting a very big week, everyone is buzzing, can’t wait.”<\/p>\n
Dominic Lavery from Lavery’s Bar said that planning for the event had taken “five or six months”.<\/p>\n
“There are going to be hundreds and hundreds of people through here through the fleadh, we are buzzing to be here,” he said.<\/p>\n
“From Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday hopefully it will feel like your normal Saturday night, and from then on it’s going to be like Paddy’s day on steroids for the duration.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Downey from the Downey Group said businesses have been gearing up and working to get ready for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-724017","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\/724017","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=724017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}