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Dublin’s annual St. Patrick’s Day festival launched a week of celebrations last Saturday with thousands of parade participants and parade spectators jamming the city’s downtown streets, many from Pleasanton who joined in the fun.
As the parade ended, the crowds moved over to the Dublin Civic Center parking lot for eight hours of carnival-like festivities with more than 100 craft and commercial vendor booths, an international food court, three stages of authentic Irish entertainment, sheep herding and more.
Representatives of the Pleasanton Weekly and TriValley Views and the online editions of those two newspapers as www.sanramonexpress.com and www.danvilleexpress.com were there, showing how to access these media online.
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Mayor Tim Sbranti (center) and members of the Dublin City Council wave to crowds during the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday. Shown are (from left to right) Councilwoman Kate Ann Scholz, standing on lower step; Councilman Don Biddle; Sbranti, and Councilman Kevin Hart. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
A few found curbside seats but most stood shoulder-to-shoulder as thousands packed the streets in downtown Dublin Saturday to watch the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
A few found curbside seats but most stood shoulder-to-shoulder as thousands packed the streets in downtown Dublin Saturday to watch the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
Dublin 4-H club members show signs of various projects they’re undertaking as they ride in the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day festival Saturday. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
Every year, business is brisk at this popcorn booth near the main entrance to Dublin’s annual St. Patrick’s Day festival at the Civic Center, as this photo taken Saturday shows. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
What’s a parade without vintage and classic automobiles from days gone by? These and more drove Saturday in Dublin’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
It takes a booth to make a festival, whether it’s blowing up balloons for the kids as this emerald-dressed volunteer is doing, or providing rides and games for the hundreds of children that came to Dublin’s annual St. Patrick’s Day festival Saturday at the Civic Center. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-Pleasanton) took a break from the health care debate in Washington, D.C., to greet crowds along the parade route Saturday as Dublin celebrated an early St. Patrick’s Day. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
Parades aren’t just for people as Steeler, this 170-pound English Mastiff, shows while watching from his curbside vantage point as he joined his family (from left)Jordyn, Kaila, Austin, Giselle and Katia at Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities in Dublin. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
Wells Fargo, involved more recently in mergers and federal-imposed regulations, probably found the banking business a bit easier back in the days when it acquired this stagecoach and team of horses, which was a part of Saturday’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
Here comes the band–the Dublin High School Band, that is–smartly marching in Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
There was loud applause all along the parade route Saturday as the Dublin High School marching band brightened the morning with patriotic songs during the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
There was loud applause all along the parade route Saturday as the Dublin High School marching band brightened the morning with patriotic songs during the city’s St. Patrick’s Day parade. Photo by Jeb Bing. -
TriValley Views sales representative Paul Crawford enjoys a few minutes away from selling with Adriel Hampton and his two sons (from left) Kai, 5, and Hiro, 3. The family stopped at the newspaper’s booth during the Dublin St. Patrick’s Day festival Saturday in the city’s Civic Center parking lot to register for the Views’ daily online news service at www.trivalleyviews.com. Photo by Jeb Bing.
Cool whats next.. st. patty’s day!
nope…it’s green meat on the hoof!