St. Patrick's Day Parade

Builderfromhell

Excellent photos from today's parade here;

http://blog.munsterbusiness.ie/

Henry Ford III

I thought it was poor enough tbh. The drunk with his dog was a highlight.

CCSL

Builderfromhell wrote: »

Excellent photos from today's parade here;

http://blog.munsterbusiness.ie/

It was a great parade but perhaps a bit long. Did we need to have the complete Eco Warm Fleet? People were leaving before the end.

I think they should go back to Floats not Fleets!
I shot over 1400 Photos in total then quickly narrowed that down to 400ish for posting on our gallery.

My Fav Pic of the day..

Kev_ps3

Henry Ford III wrote: »

I thought it was poor enough tbh. The drunk with his dog was a highlight.

lol

wylo

I thought it was like looking at traffic at times tbh.

Berty

CCSL wrote: »

It was a great parade but perhaps a bit long. Did we need to have the complete Eco Warm Fleet? People were leaving before the end.

I think they should go back to Floats not Fleets!
I shot over 1400 Photos in total then quickly narrowed that down to 400ish for posting on our gallery.

You definately like the girls anyway, especially the one's with sunglasses.

CCSL

Berty wrote: »

You definately like the girls anyway, especially the one's with sunglasses.

Yes that it.. Reflection shots... Cough... Tumbleweed blows through room...

AAAANNNNNYYY Wayyy

if that was not the case then you could say I must have a thing for french horns as well..........:eek::eek:

bullets

Kinda disturbing the amount of advertising going on in
the parade for commercial businnes etc in those Pics

You've got Live 95fm, and Connely for men, Spin FM,
BB's Muffins, Catering companys, Eco warm insulation, Ryans Timber dock road, Castles limerick (bouncey castles), Limerick independant, Savins, O Connel School of motering advertising bathrooms, Papa johns etc etc etc

phill106

ya it seemed more like slow moving billboards rather then floats.
Not one cappucino and muffin thrown from the bibis one.
No doors thrown.
No insulation, though i did see shirts.

Speaking of insulation, there was a silly amount of trucks for that in the float!

Berty

I'd say because of the theme "I Love Limerick" the Limerick Co-ordination office were tasked to promote the city and county by any means.

CCSL

bullets wrote: »

Kinda disturbing the amount of advertising going on in
the parade for commercial businnes etc in those Pics

You've got Live 95fm, and Connely for men, Spin FM,
BB's Muffins, Catering companys, Eco warm insulation, Ryans Timber dock road, Castles limerick (bouncey castles), Limerick independant, Savins, O Connel School of motering advertising bathrooms, Papa johns etc etc etc

Its got to be hard to get anyone to enter the parade and not to expect them to want to advertise their company at the same time but it did seem a bit over the top this year. Besides the Scouts and local groups it was all commercial.

I think that if they have a theme then those that enter the parade have to put in a bit of effort and not just stick a I love limerick sticker on their van and drive it down O'Connell St infront of a captive audience.

Look at the effort that some made - The northside learning hub and the Polish School were great. The actual I love Limerick Float was great as well.

I think a smaller parade with more interesting floats and groups rather than a parade of Limerick companies would ensure a better turnout next year.

wylo

agreed with the above, granted there probably isnt money to pay for external people to come in, but the people that are doing it, especially the companys should have to be quality controlled, if it carrys on like that people arent gonna bother going anymore.
That said I dont mind any non profit groups just walking down and representing themselves, theyre doing enough for the City already.

krudler

There were tanks rolling through O'connell st?! where are they when we need them

sioda

Sorry folks opening myself to flaming but it was Sh1te.

The so called banning of commercial floats a few years ago has been replaced with thinly veiled sponsorship instead.

Why not let the kids( I mean god we have lots of scouts ladybirds etc..) make floats models who cares once its made with a bit of fun in mind and allow businesses to disguise their advertising in papier mache

Surely people can remember the mr binman and ipodec dragons skip trucks a few years ago

RonMexico

It has always been third rate ****e.

Berty

It was the biggest parade in Ireland this year.

Take out the commercial advertising and what are you left with?

daveob007

sioda wrote: »

Sorry folks opening myself to flaming but it was Sh1te.

The so called banning of commercial floats a few years ago has been replaced with thinly veiled sponsorship instead.

Why not let the kids( I mean god we have lots of scouts ladybirds etc..) make floats models who cares once its made with a bit of fun in mind and allow businesses to disguise their advertising in papier mache

Surely people can remember the mr binman and ipodec dragons skip trucks a few years ago

+1 to that it was crap way too many companies getting in on cheap advertising,,not enough bands either and the gap between the bands was too big,it meant waiting in silence for 20 mins before a band or something entertaining came along.
some groups made a great effort but mostly boring.

Blazer

Berty wrote: »

You definately like the girls anyway, especially the one's with sunglasses.

link please

Stab*City

The parade was terrible and very slow moving down by patrick street... didnt stay for the whole thing as i have much better things to waste my time on!
i think the band parade should be the paddy's day parade..


Was at the Disney Main Street Parade last Tuesday now thats a parade!

supermommy

The parade was weak. The highlight for the kids and myself was the tanks! They were cool. We left halfway through as the kids couldn't really see and weren't impressed with what they could see.

Stab*City

Didnt see the tanks.. probably got bored by then.. the only interesting thing we saw was the steam powered tractor..

very interesting to see our newest and largest group of immigrants were out in force.. im talking about those orange women all over the place.. where are they from?:D

We need to ban the fake tan same as the stuff in the head shops.. total misuse of fake tan..

daveob007

and as usual loads of scumbags all over the place,like cockroaches coming out from under their hovels to contaminate the city.

phill106

tanks, dam i missed them!
Were they in parade, or there to disperse crowd after

supermommy

daveob007 wrote: »

and as usual loads of scumbags all over the place,like cockroaches coming out from under their hovels to contaminate the city.

They were very bad right in front of supermacs, but that's not really shocking. The amount of travellers where we were standing! I wanted to cover my 12 yr old's eyes from the girls! And the bellyfat hangin out on em! I spent more time traveller watchin than parade watching! Ha!

supermommy

The tanks were right at the start!

Raiser

CCSL wrote: »

It was a great parade but perhaps a bit long. Did we need to have the complete Eco Warm Fleet? People were leaving before the end.

I think they should go back to Floats not Fleets!

What? Weren't you really impressed to see an Eco Warm Truck, and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Truck Eco Warm Truck, and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Van and then an Eco Warm Van?

Yep counted 8 Trucks and 2 poxy vans - It was well worth standing on the side of the Street for......

bullets wrote: »

Kinda disturbing the amount of advertising going on in
the parade for commercial businnes etc in those Pics

You've got Live 95fm, and Connely for men, Spin FM,
BB's Muffins, Catering companys, Eco warm insulation, Ryans Timber dock road, Castles limerick (bouncey castles), Limerick independant, Savins, O Connel School of motering advertising bathrooms, Papa johns etc etc etc

To be honest I have absolutely no problem with Companies or Local Business advertising away if they have made some effort to add to the event at the same time.

Give out Flyers, display your phone numbers or whatever - just be sure to have made some effort regarding a Float or a Couple of Clown Costumes or whatever - Anything else just makes your Company look like opportunistic, cheapskates and they're best avoided at the best of times so its ultimately a negative effect for the Dopes....

- Missing from your list above is Apollo Blinds - I posted about them 2 years ago too here. Once again these absolute Gobshítes were allowed into the Parade having made no effort at all - They just showed up with their trucks having spent 30 seconds putting a crappy, tiny, cheap, plastic Irish flag on each.

What it amounts to is greedy, cheap Business Owners making their poor Employees work on the National Holiday driving Commercial vehicles down the main Street cause they are too fcuking cheap to pay for actual Advertising.

The Parade Organisers should laugh at these People and run them out - Utter Prícks.

Berty wrote: »

It was the biggest parade in Ireland this year.

Take out the commercial advertising and what are you left with?

The Parade was almost 2 hours long - quality over quantity required definitely....

supermommy wrote: »

The parade was weak. The highlight for the kids and myself was the tanks! They were cool. We left halfway through as the kids couldn't really see and weren't impressed with what they could see.

They were Willie O'Deas Mowags - Why we have budgeted for and purchased Mowags that we haven't bother to deploy is currently beyond me.

- There are some amount of Groups you'd never even heard of wandering around with Assault Rifles - Had no notion we had about 8 Adult Playgroups with access to the Steyr Aug Bullpup

Stab*City

supermommy wrote: »

traveller watchin

Now theres an idea for a parade.. Plus it would be worth 10 million to the city.:D

db

This was the worst St. Patrick's Day parade Limerick has ever seen - we didn't even have the fly past by the Air Force this year now that Willie is no longer the boss. My kids were desperate to get away after an hour they were so bored. There was no atmosphere there at all and the only group that were any way excited to be there were the Canadian schoolkids.

Another thing - there was absolutely no crowd control. We got there in plenty of time to get a good spot by the barrier - then as the parade started loads of people went out in front of the barriers so the rest of us couldn't see anything. The one garda in the area completely ignored them and one of the organisers even had to move them back so they wouldn't be too close to the insulation trucks.

Jigga

The scum really come out for St. Patrick's day. When i was heading home last night about 10 some lad had gotten bottled outside Burger King. Earlier I saw big group of scumbags fighting outside the casino on William Street in broad daylight. Also one of my friends saw a man chasing another man and baiting him in Thomondgate about 10ish.

Mc Love

db wrote: »

This was the worst St. Patrick's Day parade Limerick has ever seen - we didn't even have the fly past by the Air Force this year now that Willie is no longer the boss.

That didnt happen last year either

hiccups

It seemed like there were a hell of a lot more floats when I was a kid.
I only stuck around to see my brothers in the Scouts, and a friend in the army, so I didn't watch the full thing. No point. Since around '06 it's been total advertising. I get that by watching people from various groups marching, we're showing pride in our community, and kids love the tanks and fire engines and that. But the amount of trucks for advertising, tis boring and pointless. -.- Pfft.

ilovelimerick

Thanks for the kind words about our float! We have absolutely no funding or budget and we managed to put it together in a matter of days with blood sweat and tears and the love, help, support and skills of lots of wonderful people!

CCSL wrote: »

Its got to be hard to get anyone to enter the parade and not to expect them to want to advertise their company at the same time but it did seem a bit over the top this year. Besides the Scouts and local groups it was all commercial.

I think that if they have a theme then those that enter the parade have to put in a bit of effort and not just stick a I love limerick sticker on their van and drive it down O'Connell St infront of a captive audience.

Look at the effort that some made - The northside learning hub and the Polish School were great. The actual I love Limerick Float was great as well.

I think a smaller parade with more interesting floats and groups rather than a parade of Limerick companies would ensure a better turnout next year.

concussion

Raiser wrote: »

They were Willie O'Deas Mowags - Why we have budgeted for and purchased Mowags that we haven't bother to deploy is currently beyond me.

You're quite incorrect here, the majority of the Mowags are continually overseas on EU and UN missions.

ecowarm

Hi All,

I do agree with a lot of what you say, but on behalf of both me and my staff I feel you are being a bit harsh, we did put a lot of effort into our entry, the theme for the parade was "love limerick" (which we do), all of our trucks were decorated with Balloons, flags both irish and limerick, large hearts with slogans written on them such as "the heart of the midwest", "love limerick sport" etc., a lot of thought and planning went into it, unlike a lot of other companies we did not just drive down the street we participated,there was a float which we put a lot of effort into decorating, all of us were decked out in our paddy's day attire handing out balloons and firing T-shirts out of cannons, we started at 5am to blowup almost 5,000 balloons and roll up a 1,000 t-shirts, all of our staff willingly gave up their day to participate and had a loads of fun especially seeing the joy on the kids faces when they got a balloon or T-Shirt. you have to acknowledge the effort we went to... I do take the point there was too many trucks/vans of ours in the parade (10 in total), not until the parade was in motion did i realise this and that is completely my fault.
Next year will be bigger and better, we've already started planning as this is one of many ways we give back to our customers and the people of limerick and I do thick it is important to show our support for our city and it's people
I do think no-one with out a float should be aloud to participate and in hindsight a limit on the amount of vehicles aloud.

appreciate your comments,

Best regards

Darren Lee
Managing Director
EcoWarm Insulations

jonski

Fair play for coming on and acknowledging some of the faults , one fault really , as one poster already said it is supposed to be a float parade not a fleet parade . And also for explaining the effort put in and the plan for next year . I would hope in these tough times no one would begrudge a bit of advertising as long as it stays within the spirit of the parade .


I'll gladly let ye insulate the outside of my house for free and ye can put up as much advertising as ye like

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

My sister went to the parade with her children and said rude woman blocked the view for the kids, like went out in front of the barriers. I didn't go in, I didn't think it would be that good, last year 2 foreign children groped me while I was trying to see over people, what was last year's like compared to this year? I couldn't see anything.

Builderfromhell wrote:

Excellent photos from today's parade here; http://blog.munsterbusiness.ie/

I found a picture of my friend's niece among the photos, so thank you.

Raiser wrote:

Weren't you really impressed to see an Eco Warm Truck, and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Truck Eco Warm Truck, and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Truck and then an Eco Warm Van and then an Eco Warm Van?

That made me laugh so much, you made my night.

Raiser

Sera wrote: »

My sister went to the parade with her children and said rude woman blocked the view for the kids, like went out in front of the barriers. I didn't go in, I didn't think it would be that good, last year 2 foreign children groped me while I was trying to see over people, what was last year's like compared to this year? I couldn't see anything.
I found a picture of my friend's niece among the photos, so thank you.
That made me laugh so much, you made my night.

Actually ItsDaQuack isn't foreign - That was Chartbusters last ever recession-buster all over Glo-Tan™

- I had a charming Scumbag Couple push through and stand in front of me too; I just looked over their stunted little heads as I wasn't raised on Bensin nd Heges, Burgers and Coke :P

@ Mr. Darren Lee of Eco Warm, your response and attitude are to your credit, in fairness it takes courage to shoot clothing at the People of Limerick - I wish your and your Company continued success and look forward to next March 17th til we meet again - Its unlikely to be before that as I enjoy draughts, damp walls and the focus gained from a chilled environment.

CCSL wrote: »

My Fav Pic of the day..

Nobody polishes Helmet like a Limerick Girl.

Builderfromhell

ecowarm wrote: »

Hi All,

I do agree with a lot of what you say, but on behalf of both me and my staff I feel you are being a bit harsh, we did put a lot of effort into our entry, the theme for the parade was "love limerick" (which we do), all of our trucks were decorated with Balloons, flags both irish and limerick, large hearts with slogans written on them such as "the heart of the midwest", "love limerick sport" etc., a lot of thought and planning went into it, unlike a lot of other companies we did not just drive down the street we participated,there was a float which we put a lot of effort into decorating, all of us were decked out in our paddy's day attire handing out balloons and firing T-shirts out of cannons, we started at 5am to blowup almost 5,000 balloons and roll up a 1,000 t-shirts, all of our staff willingly gave up their day to participate and had a loads of fun especially seeing the joy on the kids faces when they got a balloon or T-Shirt. you have to acknowledge the effort we went to... I do take the point there was too many trucks/vans of ours in the parade (10 in total), not until the parade was in motion did i realise this and that is completely my fault.
Next year will be bigger and better, we've already started planning as this is one of many ways we give back to our customers and the people of limerick and I do thick it is important to show our support for our city and it's people
I do think no-one with out a float should be aloud to participate and in hindsight a limit on the amount of vehicles aloud.

appreciate your comments,

Best regards

Darren Lee
Managing Director
EcoWarm Insulations

Well done ecowarm.

The cynic in me would see your posting as an opportunity to gain yet more exposure for your company but in fairness having explained your side of the story it makes sense. Hopefully next year you'll have less vans and trucks.

I've used your company once and have been recommending you to others ever since.

daveob007

ecowarm wrote: »

Hi All,

I do agree with a lot of what you say, but on behalf of both me and my staff I feel you are being a bit harsh, we did put a lot of effort into our entry, the theme for the parade was "love limerick" (which we do), all of our trucks were decorated with Balloons, flags both irish and limerick, large hearts with slogans written on them such as "the heart of the midwest", "love limerick sport" etc., a lot of thought and planning went into it, unlike a lot of other companies we did not just drive down the street we participated,there was a float which we put a lot of effort into decorating, all of us were decked out in our paddy's day attire handing out balloons and firing T-shirts out of cannons, we started at 5am to blowup almost 5,000 balloons and roll up a 1,000 t-shirts, all of our staff willingly gave up their day to participate and had a loads of fun especially seeing the joy on the kids faces when they got a balloon or T-Shirt. you have to acknowledge the effort we went to... I do take the point there was too many trucks/vans of ours in the parade (10 in total), not until the parade was in motion did i realise this and that is completely my fault.
Next year will be bigger and better, we've already started planning as this is one of many ways we give back to our customers and the people of limerick and I do thick it is important to show our support for our city and it's people
I do think no-one with out a float should be aloud to participate and in hindsight a limit on the amount of vehicles aloud.

appreciate your comments,

Best regards

Darren Lee
Managing Director
EcoWarm Insulations

well fair play to you for that anyway,,you did have way too many trucks/vans it was like watching a traffic jam but good that you have seen the mistake.
maybe if you build a float around a small van or jeep it might work better.
the parade in general was very boring in comparison to dublin which looked more like the carnival in rio,,looked super.
better luck next year.

ecowarm

I've been working on next years entry already, I do think something along the lines of a carnival idea is best and I just received word from a major performer that is very interested, early stages yet but I would hope to have around ten performers putting on a good show the whole way through the parade and of course we will still have t-shirts and balloons for the kids, I reckon on around 10,000 balloons are needed as we ran out of them this year by the end of O'Connell Avenue
I'll Keep you all posted as things progress

CCSL

ecowarm wrote: »

Hi All,

I do agree with a lot of what you say, but on behalf of both me and my staff I feel you are being a bit harsh, we did put a lot of effort into our entry, the theme for the parade was "love limerick" (which we do), all of our trucks were decorated with Balloons, flags both irish and limerick, large hearts with slogans written on them such as "the heart of the midwest", "love limerick sport" etc., a lot of thought and planning went into it, unlike a lot of other companies we did not just drive down the street we participated,there was a float which we put a lot of effort into decorating, all of us were decked out in our paddy's day attire handing out balloons and firing T-shirts out of cannons, we started at 5am to blowup almost 5,000 balloons and roll up a 1,000 t-shirts, all of our staff willingly gave up their day to participate and had a loads of fun especially seeing the joy on the kids faces when they got a balloon or T-Shirt. you have to acknowledge the effort we went to... I do take the point there was too many trucks/vans of ours in the parade (10 in total), not until the parade was in motion did i realise this and that is completely my fault.
Next year will be bigger and better, we've already started planning as this is one of many ways we give back to our customers and the people of limerick and I do thick it is important to show our support for our city and it's people
I do think no-one with out a float should be aloud to participate and in hindsight a limit on the amount of vehicles aloud.

appreciate your comments,

Best regards

Darren Lee
Managing Director
EcoWarm Insulations

Well done on replying here ( Just shows the power of Boards.ie ):cool:
Have to say I loved the Cannon Idea! And well done to your staff who put in all the effort!
Aim!!


Fire !!!



LOL.

RonMexico

Raiser wrote: »

Nobody polishes Helmet like a Limerick Girl.

:eek::D:D:D:D:D:D

ecowarm

As promised this year we put great effort into our parade entry
we had the amazing Amani acrobats, stilt walkers, clowns and members of the wobbly circus performing,
along with giving out over 5,000 balloons this year.

I am personally quite proud of our entry this year and the effort all our staff went to in preparing for the parade.
All our performers then went to the milk market to perform in a charity show in aid of Milford hospice, which there was great interest in,
Paul Wobbly, Amani acrobats, Bruce Airhead performed and Sean De Burca played great music for over an hour.

Once again I promise next year will be even better, with more performers, some amazing things being planned.

Darren Lee,
Managing Director
Ecowarm Insulations

constantg

guys, this is small but really starting to get my goat. i was with the Defence Forces in the parade. I can PERSONALLY GUARANTEE you all that there were no tanks there anywhere.

There were towed anti-aircraft guns and armoured personnel carriers.

But NO tanks!! I can probably even tell you where they all were as well, within 5 miles give or take....

TestTransmission

constantg wrote: »

guys, this is small but really starting to get my goat. i was with the Defence Forces in the parade. I can PERSONALLY GUARANTEE you all that there were no tanks there anywhere.

There were towed anti-aircraft guns and armoured personnel carriers.

But NO tanks!! I can probably even tell you where they all were as well, within 5 miles give or take....

yes sergeant

phill106

constantg wrote: »

guys, this is small but really starting to get my goat. i was with the Defence Forces in the parade. I can PERSONALLY GUARANTEE you all that there were no tanks there anywhere.

There were towed anti-aircraft guns and armoured personnel carriers.

But NO tanks!! I can probably even tell you where they all were as well, within 5 miles give or take....

tanks for clearing that up...

daveob007

well done ecowarm as one of your biggest critics last year i must take my hat off to you for this years great parade.
the whole parade was much better this time,,fair paly to all involved.

CCSL

And the weather was good for a change!

We had myself and another Photographer covering the parade.
Rather than post load and loads of pics

you can see and download for free from our Picasa album

https://picasaweb.google.com/Munster.Images/StPatricksDayLimerickParade2011#

Over 800 pics from the day.
Also pics from Adare
and the band parade online as well.

Fantastic Weekend!