Dunboyne St.Patricks Day Festival

31/03/2026

🏆🏆🏆 Winners Announcement 🏆🏆🏆

Now the dust has settled on another fantastic St Patrick's Day Festival... Thank you!
Just 2 weeks ago we were all partying on the green!☘️🤩

The winners of the various categories for the Dunboyne St Patrick's Day Festival were judged this year by:
Fr Pat O'Connor
Cllr Caroline O'Reilly
Orla Mulreid Deane (Dunboyne Musical Society)
Sinead Clince (St. Peter's GAA Club Dunboyne)
Sinead Hackett (St. Peter's GAA Club Dunboyne)

Please join me in congratulating each of our winners:

Bartender Race - La Bucca Restaurants
Best Float - Set 4 Stage
Best Dressed Group - Fusion Elite Dance Academy
Best Dressed Window - Ardú coffee
Best Dressed Adult - St Patrick (Simon Deane) Deane Motors
Best Dressed School - McDermott School of Dancing
Best Community Group - St. Peter's GAA Club Dunboyne
Best Commercial Group - STM Paving
Most Entertaining - Gaelscoil Thulach na nÓg
Spirit of St Patrick's Day - Motorbike Women Ireland

But I think we can all agree again this year that the village was the ultimate winner! 💚☘

See you all again for the Dunboyne St Patrick's Day Festival on the 17th March 2027!!

Kind regards,
The Festival Committee
☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️

28/03/2026

Don’t forget to get your tickets for this hilarious show full of all the songs you know and love from the 80s! Support your local Dunboyne Musical Society in the process and keep the arts alive and well in the community ✨🎸
Tickets: https://www.gr8events.ie/sales/index.php?event=2543

🤟🏻✨Tickets on sale NOW✨🤟🏻

Rehearsals are in full swing for our totally rad ’80s comedy ‘Rock of Ages’! 🎸

From big ballads to rock anthems, the cast are ready to ‘hit you with their best shot’ and prove they’re anything but ‘wanted dead or alive’!! We are back with tiered seating and a full orchestra. ‘Don’t stop believin’ this is going to be an amazing show! 🤟🏻

🗓️ 7th-11th April 2026
📍 Community Centre, Dunboyne
🎟️ http://www.gr8events.ie/rock-of-ages-dunboyne-musical-society

18/03/2026

What a parade. What a crowd. What a community!! ☘️✨

Dunboyne, you showed up in your thousands for St. Patrick’s Day 2026. From the first float to the final cheer, the atmosphere was something special 💚

A heartfelt thank you to our sponsors, participants, marshals, MC, vendors and dedicated committee who made it all happen. Days like this don’t come together without a serious team effort 👏

Special shout out to .music for entertaining us when the sun came out!!

We’re already looking forward to doing it all over again in 2027☘️

17/03/2026

Delighted to share some pictures of the afternoon- with very special thanks to our photographer Aidan Smyth.
Thanks Aidan for all your work and efforts in odds, very much appreciated.

17/03/2026

More of our fantastic sponsors!! ☘️🤩
Let’s do this!!

17/03/2026

Some of our fantastic sponsors!! ☘️🤩 We really are so lucky to have such a wonderful village full of generous businesses and groups. Today is the day!!

16/03/2026

Road Closures 🍀
1pm-5pm 💚

There will be temporary Road Closures of the following roads/streets to facilitate the holding of Dunboyne Saint Patrick’s Day parade on Tuesday 17th March 2026:

Dunboyne - L-22191, L-2271 & L-2228, Dunboyne, Co. Meath
L-22191 Industrial Estate Road for a distance of 180m northwest of its junction with L-2271(old Navan Road) from 1pm to 4pm
L-2271 from its junction with L-22191 to its junction with L-2228 (old R156) from 1pm to 5pm
L-2228 from its junction with L-2271 to its junction with L-2221 Rooske Road from 1pm to 5pm

16/03/2026

TOMORROW 🍀💚

All the details you need for the day!! It’s going to be a great day of community and fun ✨

16/03/2026

The Dunboyne St Patrick’s Day Festival Committee are proud to introduce a *Quiet Zone* along the parade route this year.
Located outside GP Joule and the Credit Union, this space is designed to help ensure the parade is an enjoyable and inclusive event for everyone, particularly for those who may find loud noises, music, or large crowds overwhelming. The Quiet Zone will have reduced noise and no sirens or amplified music as the parade passes through.
We hope this initiative helps more members of our community feel comfortable attending and celebrating together. 💚
We are delighted that members from our local Dunboyne A Team Arch Club will be there also.
Thank you to all parade participants and spectators for helping us make this a welcoming experience for everyone.

13/03/2026

Fantastic turnout at our Table Quiz last night in support of the Dunboyne St. Patrick’s Day Parade! ☘️
With less than a week to go, we couldn’t be more excited by the incredible support from the community.

A huge thank you to Mulvanys for hosting us and providing the venue for such a great night! 🎉

We want to take a moment to thank our incredible sponsors for donating such fabulous prizes:

La Bucca
Ardú
Cauldwells
Constantia
Coffee Works
Slevins
Cula Bula
Your Local Pharmacy
McElroy Pharmacy
Cllr Caroline O’Reilly

19/11/2025

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for our AGM on Monday night! We had a fantastic evening looking back on the past year and are already looking forward to an unforgettable parade in 2026 🎉🍀

Our 2025/26 Committee:
Chairperson: Dermot Walsh
Vice Chair & PRO: Orla Mulreid Deane
Treasurer: Tracy Armstrong
Secretary: Liam Egan
Event Co-Ordinator: Thomas Curran

Committee Members:
Caroline O’Reilly, Aoife Collins, Eoin Walsh, David Renshaw, Helen Lonergan, Marcin Starzyk, Paul Dalton, Tom Holmes, Méabh Ní Thiarnáin, Philip Flood

Thank you all for your continued support — exciting things ahead! 💚