Ryan Ver Berkmoes - Lonely Planet’s foremost St Patrick’s Day Parade Critic - tells us how it is in Limerick, Ireland…
‘That one sucks,’ said the little boy next to me as a barely decorated pickup truck rolled by.
He was right of course, like many of the ‘floats’ in this minor-league parade, the truck was merely a marketing tool for a local business - in this case Pimp My Ride, a Limerick car customizer, which if their float was any indication, considered a dangling air freshener to be the full pimp.
On a somewhat stormy day, Ireland’s second city staged a parade that was every bit the reflection of this town’s own checkered reputation: shambolic, merry, mean and ultimately grey - like the streets it traversed, the skies overhead and the complexions of the windblown spectators.
Fortunately we (myself and compatriots Erin and Janine) had our own little peanut gallery of ginger-haired moppets […]
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