Irish Village owners seek to change route of St. Patrick’s Day Parade for 2011
Ottawa East EMC
By Desmond Devoy
EMC Events – The owners of Ottawa’s largest chain of Irish-owned pubs are hoping that next year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade will terminate in the historic ByWard Market instead of its normal end point, Lansdowne Park.
“Eventually, we’re hoping that the parade will end up on this end of town,” said Larry Bradley, a native of Omagh, County Tyrone, during an interview in The Irish Village, where four of his pubs are housed at 67 Clarence Street.
“The City didn’t want it (the parade) coming down Rideau Street,” said co-owner Pat Kelly, of Ballygar, County Galway.
“It used to come down this way,” said Kelly. “We’re hoping next year.”
“It used to be nice for the business people here,” said Bradley, before adding quickly that “we don’t care about making money. We care about making friends.”
(The 2010 Ottawa St. Patrick’s Parade will start at 11 a.m. from Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, proceed along Laurier, before turning left and heading south along Bank Street, ending at Lansdowne Park around 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 13.)
The move would not only funnel people into the ByWard Market, and to their bars, but it would also direct people to the nearby St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and Humanities, home of the National Irish Canadian Cultural Centre, 314 St. Patrick Street, an initiative the two men have been helping move to fruition for a number of years.
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Tags: Byward Market, Lansdowne Park, National Irish Canadian Cultural Centre, Ottawa Irish Festival, Ottawa St. Patrick's Day Parade, St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities
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Makes sense to ME! Why shouldn’t the parade end in the market?