FIRST EVER MORNING START FOR CITY ST PATRICKS PARADE

Date Published: 27-Feb-2012

The Galway city St. Patrick's day Parade will start an hour earlier than usual this year following talks with city centre businesses.

The March 17th Parade starts at 11:30 am at Dominic street and will head towards Shop street and Eyre square before finishing around Prospect Hill at lunchtime.

The theme of the parade is 'green', which has been chosen to give leverage to groups, organisations and businesses taking part.

Foroige's Galway city youth cafe is collaborating with youth groups throughout the city and county to design the largest green snake Ireland has ever seen.

The organisers of the parade are also calling on the public to nominate a teenager as their guest of honour to lead the parade on March 17th.