Sunday 17 March 2013

St Patricks Day - Ireland


Some pics from our recent trip to Ireland for St Pats Day.  Our travels started in Dublin, where we met up with 20 odd kiwi mates for a reasonably large evening on the guiness and catch ups at the Long Hall and Roady Bowlands pub.  The following day we all jumped on the lunch time train with a few cans to Galway, where we would celebrate St Pats day.  We travelled out to Kinvara a small rural settlement on the coast (40 minutes out of Galway) for St Pats morning.  They put on an amazing St Pats community parade mainly consisting of farming machinery, animals and school children with hurling sticks, classic.  Then spent St Pats evening back in Galway with our Kiwi/Aussie/American flash mob. A hell of a weekend.

The River Liffey, Dublin

Central Dublin

St Pats morning Galway

Kinvara

Mitch, Hudge & Tom

Castle outside Kinvara

Kinvara St Pats Parade

Kinvara coastline
  
A pint of the black stuff

Beers and some Hurling on telly with the locals at Sextons Pub

More Guiness

Tinkers

Parade Float

Spot the pint of Guiness..

A wood burner float

Local children with Hurls

Float ?

Waiting for the beginning of parade

Father Ted and Father Jack

Classic old Guiness adverts in the brewery

Molly Malones Statue Dublin

Jeremy, Kat, Katie, Brian, Pearce

Kat and Barrels in Guiness Storeroom