Irish Festival News
95.9 sun fm donates to festival
General Manager Dan Gallant is pictured with our office manager, Alexanne Beaulieu. Thanks to 95.9 sun fm for their support & partnership. 95.9 sun fm has donated $2500 to Canada’s Irish Festival on the Miramichi and are one of our presenting sponsors for 2015. Thanks 95.9 sun fm!
Irish Ambassador to Attend 2015 Festival
Canada’s next Ambassador to Ireland, Kevin Vickers, will attend Canada’s 32nd Irish Festival on the Miramichi. The annual festival will be held July 16th – 19th on Waterford Green. As a committee we are excited for Miramichier Kevin Vickers and his appointment as Ambassador to Ireland and naturally we are tremendously excited he will be […]
Perfect Weather Revives Festival
From Miramichi Online – July 19, 2014. After only one day of events, the perfect weather is making the festival organizers look like geniuses, and will probably help fund a revival that the festival desperately needs. As one of the people in attendance at the Irish Festival put it, “I think they have somebody looking […]
Something for everyone on top of perfect weather
Miramichi Leader Mon Jul 21 2014 Samantha Magee Miramichi Leader The Irish have the luck, it seems, as this weekend’s 31st annual Canada’s Irish Festival on the Miramichi has gone off without a hitch, despite the gamble organizers took to have the majority of the events outdoors. Paddy Quinn, a co-president alongside Tracey (Chopper) Robinson, […]
Festival’s gamble about to pay off
The co-presidents of the Miramichi Irish Festival say the festival needed a change, but say they were a bit nervous to take the festival outdoors. “For years this festival was the place to be. Hotels were full, campgrounds were full, and people were sleeping on couches of people they met on the festival floor. It […]