Galway Arts Festival hopes Macnas parade will return in future
Galway Arts Festival hopes that the Macnas parade will make a return to the Festival line-up in the future.
Macnas was unable to reach an agreement with the Arts Festival regarding funding, after months of negotiation, and will not present a parade at this year's festival.
Macnas has presented parades in association with Galway Arts Festival since 1987.
Macnas says that the Arts Festival's cash contribution to the cost of staging the parade in recent years has been less than 10 percent of the 100 thousand euro cost.
However, Galway Arts Festival says it has contributed 20 percent to Macnas parade costs.
Artistic Director with Galway Arts Festival, Paul Fahy told Galway Bay fm News, that it's disappointing that there won't be parade in this year's festival, but hopes it will return in the future