Festival of the Erne 2011

The 2011 Festival of the Erne website is currently being updated.. check back here soon!!

If you captured a shot of the fancy dress or any or the other events this week you would like to see immortalized, send it to photo@ernefestival.com and we’ll put it up on the site.

DON,T FORGET THE 2010 FANCY DRESS PARTY, THIS PARTY HAS GROWN TO BE ONE OF THE
BIGGEST STREET PARTIES IN IRELAND. THIS YEAR ON THE 30TH JULY, JOIN THOUSANDS ON
THE STREET OF BELTURBET FOR THE 2010 FANCY DRESS. SUPER PRIZES ON THE NIGHT.
SAMBA BANDS AND STILT WALKERS AND LOTS MORE ENTERTAINMENT.
YOU’ D BE BONKERS TO MISS IT!!

Is it a bird?? Is it a plane??? No, it’s ………. well, you’ll just have to wait till Friday 30th July to find out what ‘it’s’ all about!!A one of display never before has the likes been seen in these neck of the woods! This years Fancy Dress party is going to be the biggest yet ever seen so be sure to get the rags on and join in!

Wonder, awe and mystery are the themes of the 2010 Festival of the Erne and as always the hard working, highly inovative Festival Committee have come up with some crackers to surprise and delight vistors and folks of Belturbet town.

Well it’s been a week full of spills, thrills and not that much dry weather. Despite the occasional downpours, we had record crowds this year for some of the events. We are busy going through our snaps of the week and will be posting a gallery shortly. In the meanwhile send any of your pics to photos@ernefestival.com and we’ll be sure to upload the best ones onto the site as well.

Thanks to everyone for attending and to all the committee for their hard work in organizing all the events.

After a week of recovery, we’ve managed to get through some of the mountain of photos from the Fancy Dress nights from previous years. We think this year’s Fancy Dress will be the biggest to date with people flooding into town from Cavan, Derry, Cork and even a few Swedes who took a wrong turn at Dublin.We hopefully will have a fuller showing of pictures up around town soon but we have to weed out the ones that are PG-13.

Click below to see more pictures (there’s quite a few pictures so it may take a minute or so to load properly.)
If you have any pictures from the night itself that don’t break any deceny laws, please send them on to photos@ernefestival.com and we’ll include in our next gallery

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A massive thank you to all our sponsors of this years Festival of the Erne ‘09.. Without you and the support of our local community it just would not be possible.. Thanks..

As for everyone else.. .. Enjoy It!!!!

The pigs have other ideas. As part of the Sunday entertainment the Main Street was closed off for some frantic betting on racers of a smaller stature.
Though the jockeys were to scale…..

The Raft Race this year attracted crafts of every shape and size. The winners of this years event had to not only race the course but collect rubber rings from the banks of the river as they paddled furiously. The overall winner of the time trail section was the Pink Pearl Pirates from Ballyconnell.
Click below to see the rest of the fun from the day…. (more…)

The crew of RTE’s Nationwide programme were in town on Saturday to cover some of the day’s events. We’d like to thank all for their attendance at the events and hopefully we will see Belturbet in the near future on a screen near you.
Pictured above is Nationwide presenter Mary Kennedy interviewing Brendan D’Arcy (our local and national wakeboarding champion) about their part in our sucessfull James Bond Experience.

A massive thank you to all the sponsors of this years Belturbet Festival of The Erne’09