Tuesday – March 17, 2026
- 9:00 am: Depart your hotel to stage for the St Patricks’ Day Parade
- Noon: St. Patrick’s Parade Begins
- The 2026 Festival Parade will weave its way through the heart of the capital city in a flourish of color and flair. Ireland’s finest street-theatre companies will swirl by with fantastical pageantry and raucous performances. Bands from Ireland will be joined by music ensembles from around the world and deliver uplifting rhythms for the spectacular procession.
- Late Afternoon: Celbridge Parade Begins
- The community of Celbridge hosts an annual St. Patrick’s Parade, which has is recent years become the envy of community parades around Ireland. With it’s proximity to Dublin City, this town has become the second parade for many bands and artists to continue their celebrations after the Dublin City Parade has finished!
- After the Celbridge Parade we return to our hotel or have the option to spend some free time in Dublin and the Temple Bar area.
Parade Route
The Parade is 2.5 kilometres long ; from Parnell Square on the city’s Northside down O’Connell Street, over the River Liffey via O’Connell Bridge into Westmoreland Street, past Trinity College at College Green and on to Dame Street. It then turns left at Christchurch Cathedral into Lord Edward Street, Nicholas Street and Patrick Street before finally finishing at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.