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Every year the Nottingham St. Patrick's day parade and festival 'twin' with a county/city in Ireland. This cultural exchange is part of building good commercial and tourism exchanges between our two countries. This year the beautiful and historic county of Offaly has be chosen for festival 2011, following county Waterford 2010. Two of its most famous sons are world leaders – President Obama's maternal family came from the village of Moneygall and An Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) is county Offaly born man Mr Brian Cowen. |
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The prizes of the Grand Raffle drawn on St Patrick's Day 2010 were: 1st prize – Weekend for 2 in Co. Waterford at the Arlington Lodge Country House Hotel (kindly donated by Maurice Keller – Managing Director) and flights kindly provided by Aer Arann 2nd prize – 'His & Hers' Quality Watches kindly donated by Richard Hayden – Rayden Engineering 3rd prize – 'Irish Scene' watercolour painted and kindly donated by Brian Evans 4th prize – Evening meal for 2 kindly donated by the Jury's Inn (Nottingham)
All prizes have been claimed. |
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...happens the day after the last St.Patrick's Day. The committee of volunteers are busy in the planning of the 11th Nottingham parade and open-air concert and active participation by bands and groups is gaining momentum. St. Patrick's Day in Nottingham is now one of the main cultural events of the year and the new Market Square is an ideal space to receive the parade and spacious enough to accommodate the open-air concert. Headlining the parade this year will be local Showbands like the Trinity School Band and the concert will be headlined by Irish & Country star John McNicholl with lots of local entertainment. But the logistics of security, staging, lighting & sound, crowd management etc have to be planned for. If you would like to volunteer to help make this year's celebrations a success (or if you would just like some more information) please contact us. |
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Coverage of the St Patrick's Day 2010 events in the Nottingham Evening Post. 
