St Patrick's Day Parade Portlaoise needs you for the biggest celebration in Laois!
Portlaoise parade committee make appeal in 2024 route plan announcement
The hardworking voluntary St Patrick's Day Parade Committee in Portlaoise are looking for your support as they prepare for the big event on Sunday, March 17.
The committee have also outlined details of this year's parade and how you can participate in showing your colours on Ireland's national day.
They say the Portlaoise Parade will commence from Laois County Council HQ on James Fintan Lalor Avenue at 12.30pm on March 17.
There's a direction change this year or as the committee put it, the parade will be going the ‘other way around'.
That is to say, the Parade will be going down Main Street from LCC buildings to Market Square (Top Square) and then down to the bottom of the town.
While the parade is expected to finish at 2 pm, the organisers promise more fun afterwards.
The committee say it will be followed by a community event on Main Street involving street acts, Irish music, trade stands, Irish dancing and much more.
Pauline Flanagan is the Parade Committee secretary. She encouraged the community to get involved. MORE BELOW POST.
“This is going to be a great event and it will be a major boost financially to the town, but of course also great morale for everyone living in Portlaoise and the surrounding areas of Laois,” said Ms Flanagan.
While people are being invited to get involved in the big day, they are also being invited to support the event in advance to help pay for the fun on March 17.
To this end, they have organised a fundraising table quiz in Kavanagh’s Bar, Portlaoise on Friday, March 8 to help raise funds for this event.
For more information on how to support the committee and get involved in the parade by entering a float, Ms Flanagan says you can contact her at 0879984574 or the Chairperson, Dominic Dunne at 0868312034.
The St Patrick’s Day committee consists of old and new members who meet weekly in Portlaoise Parish Centre. The members include: Chairperson Dominic Dunne; Secretary, Pauline Flanagan; Treasurer Eugene McDonagh, Christy Bannon and Paul Downey, both MCs and joint Event Co-Ordinators, Frank Ward, PJ Kavanagh; Wayne Haslam, Cllr Catherine Fitzgerald, Cllr Marie Tuohy and Noel Tuohy.