Nepalese will participate in St. Patrick's Day Parade in Ireland

By Krishna Bhattarai-

Dublin- Nepalese people will participate for the first time in St. Patrick Festival Parade 2008 in Ireland. For this purpose, 15 to 20 Nepalese on behalf of Nepal Ireland Society (http://www.nepalireland.org/) will represent in this parade. Jeevan Timilsina will lead the Nepalese group in this parade. Official training is started from today for Nepalese performers. Nepalese group will represent Nepal and Nepalese culture by Nepalese costume as well as Nepalese instruments. In today's training, Ganesh Prasain, Jeevan Timilsina, Suman Ghimire, Gangaram Kandel, Damber Singh Nepal and Krishna Bhattarai were the participant. This number will be increase from next week. The training will be given by City Fusion.

St. Patrick's Festival is Ireland's official celebration for Ireland's national holiday – St. Patrick's Day. Around the globe on the 17th March, Ireland is celebrated with parties and parades but the BIG party is here in Ireland where people celebrate in style with five days and nights of fantastic celebratory events, most of which are free!
From March 13th to 17th 2008 there will be so much on offer - music, street theatre, family carnivals, comedy, street performances, dance, a treasure hunt, night spectacles, culminating on Monday March 17th with the world famous St. Patrick's Day Parade. Over five days, 4000 performers and 1 million people will be celebrating Ireland. So whether you are Irish or just wish you were, Ireland is the place to be next March to enjoy Ireland's biggest party.
St. Patrick's Festival was the Overall Winner of the prestigious Dublin Tourism Enterprise Award 2007. St. Patrick himself turned up at Dublin Tourism, accompanied by Donal Shiels (CEO) to accept the award from Frank Magee, Chief Executive of Dublin Tourism.