Irish Festival

[tiger ranks]

What a very nice day it was indeed very busy and i must say to all the people who do his every year keep up the hard work throughly enjoyed myself >:D

[boosboss]

*Ouch* My head hurts! Great day, had a great time :)-D

[????]

How did Sean get on in the dancing?

[TillieTrotter]

He pissed all over Michael Flatley to be sure.;-)

[SeanMacGabhann]

Lady Mac did very well it the Luvvly Girruls competition

[lenk]

I like the tombola stall where 90% of the prizes are booze of some description.

[PeckhamRose]

Indeed and for ?1 I won two bottles of alcohol.

So good day all round thanks...

[woodie]

been fun for years.always loved that marquee where the oldies (mainly) do the trad dancing.

[Louisa]

The Irish Festival is one of the few local events I cannot find fault with, loved it for years now and well done to everyone involved for yet another fun packed day for everyone. If I have one minor annoyance it would be the fact that the rubbish isnt cleared off the rye, broken glass bottles, people using the doggy bins to put other rubbish in (and then coming on here moaning when dog owners dont do a s*it pick etc), but overall excellent.

Louisa.

[Mick Mac]

If I had known it was on, I'd have gone...I'm sure my English wife and English children (apparently) kept this from me. I'm a foreigner in my own house.

[????]

..I bet you don't even know what cakes they're eating MM

[Mick Mac]

Very sad English ones. Not a soda farl in sight.

[SteveT]

I remember one of the guys we employed going to an Irish festival in Edgeware Rd many years ago, there were estimated to be two hundred thousand visitors and just one policeman, he was a bit drunk mind, but he had a great time.

[lilly123]

i saw all people in nunhead lane, on sunday, very happy celebrating the day, pubs along nunhead lane was flowing, no trouble from any of them, may there be many more st pats day

[SteveT]

Same time next year guys early July, it's a date.

[hayesgrover]

Yep, great fun. Diddly-eidle-doh music, everyone in great form. It's a key fixture in the diary!

[Rowanofski]

Population of Ireland: 5,981,448

Global Irish Population: 80,000,000

These statistics always crack me up. Everyone wants to be Irish I suppose. I went along with my own genuine Irish beauty to this and can mostly echo everyone else's praise. My highlights included seeing a 60-something lady so drunk she had to be reluctantly carried home by her grown up kids and the PA telling people to leave the public park

I remain less convinced as to the new breed of Irish dancing which apparently involves latex bodysuits and arabic-style flouncing and body caressing! Apparently, if you add a fiddle, you're grand, so. It was most entertaing to watch the old Irish gents with their jaws dropping at such spectacles though.

Any chance of getting better burger/ice cream vans next year? Both were crazily overpriced and rubbish.

[Catalyst]

Great event. I usually try and watch the hurling and camogie games in the morning.

[silverfox]

I go every year and always find it a bit of a shoddy afair with tatty stalls and very litle effort. Not a good advertisement for Ireland in my opinion.

[lenk]

silverfox Wrote:

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> I go every year and always find it a bit of a

> shoddy afair with tatty stalls and very litle

> effort. Not a good advertisement for Ireland in my

> opinion.

What wouild you like?

Little folk? Funny coins?

Toothless hags cackling in Gaelic? The Corrs?

[Brendan]

English people in novelty Guinness hats.

[SeanMacGabhann]

"

Little folk? Funny coins?

Toothless hags cackling in Gaelic? The Corrs?"

I'm pretty sure all but the Corrs are in plentiful supply whenever I go to the festival.

If people have a good day then cool - but it's not for me. Reminds me of the Ireland I left

[SteveT]

You are too sensitive Sean, it's a great day out!

Although I'm not Irish my buddies are Irish and Scots and I have always felt a warmth towards the Irish ever since I first went there in the 70's.

They are very friendly, hospitable, and good craic.

[dave]

So, let me get this straight: someone organised an Irish festival for the 12th of July - and it all passed off with no rioting whatsoever? Truly we live in a post-Troubles era...

Sorry I missed it.

[lenk]

the Latim American one is coming soon. 25 food stalls all selling a variation on pork and rice. Pan pipes.