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French Ambassador to Ireland Sir Vincent Guérend and Mayor of Limerick Cllr Gerald Mitchell stand together for the 2023 Limerick Bastille Day Wild Geese Festival | PICTURE: MARY MURPHY
A RECORD number of sold-out events were attended by guests at the latest international festival in Limerick city.
The Limerick Bastille Day Wild Geese Festival, organised by Alliance Française Limerick, saw thousands of people flock to events for its fifth consecutive year.
French Ambassador to Ireland HE Vincent Guerend attended two days of this year’s festivities, with events on the programme that ranged from a gala eight-course Bastille Day Banquet in the Milk Market, to a talk by Irish/ French rugby referee, Tady Walsh.
Other events included that of a military parade, and a film screening and musical tribute to Patrick Sarsfield in Saint Mary’s Cathedral.
The city's annual summer festival, commemorating Limerick's Wild Geese heritage and celebrating the friendship between Ireland and our closest EU neighbour France, took place on Saturday July 15 and Sunday, July 16.
The Bastille Day weekend banquet had been sold out for the past two weeks, with the Ambassador of France Vincent Guérend and Mayor Gerald Mitchell among the 120 guests.
The festival ended with a farewell to the Wild Geese on the Shannon River, organised in partnership with the Curraghour Boat Club and an evening at Mickey Martin's. The weekend of festivities was organised with the support of the French Embassy and the council.
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