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Having decided to go Full Rod Stewart, the Kilcoole team brought a welcome air of mischief and unpredictability to proceedings, that giant peil bouncing over everyone’s heads and on into the train station car park.
Everyone here was proud to be part of something bigger, from the scouts to the responders, from your football club to your school, and for some of them, this grand day out every year is like the town’s Oscars.
Talking of which, the day’s most surreal moment came
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ithout warning, the sun burst through on this grey Tuesday morning 
and it instantly turned the town’s St Patrick’s Day Parade up a notch or dhá.
ithout warning, the sun burst through on this grey Tuesday morning 
and it instantly turned the town’s St Patrick’s Day Parade up a notch or dhá.To something approaching 11, especially when St Anthony’s FC saw their oversized football go off-pitch.
Having decided to go Full Rod Stewart, the Kilcoole team brought a welcome air of mischief and unpredictability to proceedings, that giant peil bouncing over everyone’s heads and on into the train station car park. 
The first attempt to kick in back into play hit the bar (or the Brooke & Shoals flower display, to be precise), but the second careered over the crowd to the kids chanting “We Want Our Ball Back!”.
The first attempt to kick in back into play hit the bar (or the Brooke & Shoals flower display, to be precise), but the second careered over the crowd to the kids chanting “We Want Our Ball Back!”.Only to have it get stuck on the roof of The Burnaby moments later.
As we’d been lucky with the sun an hour earlier, the wind did everyone a favour and blew the ball back into play to yet another chorus of grateful cheers.
Even down in the Park & Ride, as the various brass bands, school papier-mâché creations and colourful costumes put the finishing touches to their grand entries, there was that warm, familiar mix of a magical mystery tour mixed with a gargantuan show and tell.
Everyone here was proud to be part of something bigger, from the scouts to the responders, from your football club to your school, and for some of them, this grand day out every year is like the town’s Oscars. 
The winners for best sports group, most topical entry, most colourful group and beyond will all be announced in a week.
Or two, given just how much exhausting work the Greystones Town Team and their army of volunteers put into making this day go off without a hitch.
Talking of which, the day’s most surreal moment came 
with the K2Alpacas gang stopped at the train station for a little in-store promotion, posing for a series of selfies and shout-outs for what seemed like forever and a half as the parade ground to a halt. It was enough to have one of the alpacas lie down on the road and take a nap.
with the K2Alpacas gang stopped at the train station for a little in-store promotion, posing for a series of selfies and shout-outs for what seemed like forever and a half as the parade ground to a halt. It was enough to have one of the alpacas lie down on the road and take a nap.
Kudos to the organisers, and this year’s grand marshals, Grainne McLaughlin and Dermod Dwyer, and to all the backroom volunteers without whom none of this could happen.
The shots here offers up just an early 200 shots of the parade, with man of de peoples John McGowan’s 561 portraits from the day capturing the true spirit of Greystones on St Patrick’s Day. The bould Tim Nolan provided the video at the bottom of our page too.
You can check out the full gallery of 750 shots from this sweet day right here, and jump back through the years here.
