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St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Oughterard 2018

Toto pulling at the leash to gobble slices of white pan tossed along Main Street by a Bread-Exit delivery. A rowdy division of suffragettes clashing with a soldier. Sean Clancy’s MC mic getting scrambled with music from a raucous Rapunzel parody. A Men’s Shed rocket scattering smoke in the biting raw breeze. Numb thumbs struggling with camera buttons. Numb fingers playing tin whistles. Maybe the only warm kids are dressed as plump snowballs bobbing around a sharp toothed 15 foot tall Beast from the East. Starred and striped line dancers and tip toed Irish dancers, rugby players, vintage car drivers, historical reenactors, parkrunners, saints, sinners, and wall busting Mexicans, assemble. (and shiver).

St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography
St patricks Day, Connemara, Oughterard, Galway, Ireland, Donal Kelly Photography

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