St Patrick's Day Parade Gets Underway In Cork City
Cork's RedFM are media partners to the event which will see Rob Heffernan act as Grand Marshal of today's Parade
People from all over the world are taking part in this afternoons St Patrick's Day parade.
Groups from Mexico, America, Poland, Hungary, Philippines and Nepal are just some of the over 2,000 participants who are making their way through the city centre in a spectacle of sound and colour.
The theme of this years parade is Stories of Cork...
Something Jean Brennan from Cork City Council says is very fitting
Meanwhile these people in the city centre told RedFM what they were most looking forward to today:
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