Ballylanders has a long and distinguished history of staging a St Patrick’s Day parade and this tradition continued last Sunday. Officially ‘a village’, Ballylanders has a lot of ‘town’ characteristics and despite a constantly changing economic climate, it still boasts a very strong retail and commercial presence.
Its voluntary sector is also robust and this was reflected in the composition of Sunday’s parade.
The event was minus a reviewing stand this year, however, this didn’t detract from what was a large, lively, colourful and vibrant parade.
Shorter in duration than most parades, the event is consistently well supported. MC for the day was prominent community activist and retail assistant, Bridget Fitzgerald.
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