Saturday was St. Patrick's Day and while we don't turn our rivers green we still have a wonderful day. The photo above was taken in the morning. I headed out to walk the dog at 8am, it was worth getting up early to see the frost and fog. The Sligo town parade started at 12... Continue Reading →
St. Patrick’s Day Sligo 2012
The Sligo St. Patrick's Day parade is on tomorrow at 12 noon. Let's hope the sun makes an appearance for the day. It will take the same route as last year: Mail Coach Road, Temple Street, Adelaide Street, Wine Street, Hyde Bridge, Markievicz Road, The Slip, Connaughton Road, Lake Isle Road, Bridge Street, Thomas Street... Continue Reading →
Sligo St. Patrick’s Day Parade, 2011
As you will all know yesterday was St. Patrick's Day, or St. Paddy's Day but never, ever Patty's Day! Consider yourselves told 😉 I took my mum in to see the Sligo Parade. As usual I took too many photo's, you can see them here. I was very pleased to see that there wasn't the... Continue Reading →
Sligo St. Patrick’s Day Parade
Green, white and orange, originally uploaded by magnum_lady. Well as you all know St. Patrick's Day is tomorrow. The parade is on in Sligo town and will start at 12 noon. If anyone went last year they will know how chaotic it was trying to get the big floats down O'Connell Street. So this... Continue Reading →
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, 2010
Green, white and orange, originally uploaded by magnum_lady. Well as you know today was St. Patrick's Day. I took my mum and Jono into Sligo town for the parade. Luckily the weather was in our favour and although it was overcast it didn't rain. There were lots of bands including one from Oldham in the... Continue Reading →
Sligo St. Patrick’s Day 2010
St. Patrick forgot this snake, originally uploaded by magnum_lady. Just a quick blog to let people know that the parade in Sligo starts at 12 noon tomorrow and is starting from the Pearse Road (near the garda barracks). It will go down Castle Street, O'Connell Street but then won't go down Wine Street as it... Continue Reading →