Cootehill St. Patrick’s Parade 2025

Cootehill St. Patrick's Parade 2025

17 March 2025

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Latin dancers all dressed up and performing.

A man in an Ireland-themed cowboy-style hat looking at the camera with a smile and giving a thumbs up.

Parade host with parade marshall another lady.

Publicans and local representatives gathered together to take a group photo.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

What a day we had yesterday! As 2025 is Cootehill’s tercentenary year, the theme for the parade was reflective of that. Floats and parade participants turned up in their best Cootehill-style vintage wear and decorations. There were farmers and milkmaids galore, and Cootehill was brought on a journey through the past. The weather was amazing, the crowd engaging, and with over 60 entries, it was easily one of Cootehill’s biggest and best parade yet. Got your own snaps from the day? Send them in – we’d love to share even more of the fun!

Thank You

Year after year, we are blown away by the amount of support that we receive from the local community and businesses in the surrounding areas. We owe a massive thank you to the following people, groups, and organisations for helping to make the parade the success that it was:

Thank you to Cathal Dempsey of Dempsey Transport and GP Pigs Limited for providing their trailer for the Bandstand for Cootehill’s St. Patrick’s Parade, and to the amazing Yvonne McDermott of Cassie’s Beads & Bobs for the wonderful bandstand display and decoration – they helped make it look the part.

A huge thank you to our local publicans and businesses! Cootehill Chamber would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the local publicans for their generous sponsorship and support of this year’s St. Patrick’s Parade! Your contributions helped make the event a fantastic success, bringing our community together for a day of celebration, music, and fun.

Your continued support not only enhances our local events but also strengthens the spirit of Cootehill. We are proud to have such dedicated businesses in our town! Thank you for your generosity and community spirit!

Link Credit Union, Sorrentos, Sean’s Diner, Apache Pizza Cootehill, and Side Street Cafe.

A big thanks to Gerry Mc Donagh our indefatigable MC, outgoing Grand Marshall Una Smith and incoming Grand Marshall Philomena Clarke. Both ladies deserving of huge thanks for their unstinting service to the community over many decades.

Jacinta Kinkade of Kinkades Garage Agri Spares who flawlessly looks after the Farmers & Fairies annually.

And finally the impressive presence of C Company RDF Colour Party.