Archive for August, 2006

After a week of recovery, we’ve managed to get through some of the mountain of photos from the Fancy Dress night. We think this year’s was 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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After the last week & a half of events, partying and non stop fun, we know how this scarecrow is feeling. We would like to thank everyone who helped throughout the festival as it drew to a close this evening (Aug 8th) with a spectacular fireworks display over the river. Even more, we would like to give a big cheer to all who attended all the events this year as we could not have made the great atmosphere without the local and visitor participation.

Although the Festival has ended we still have a lot of event photos to sort through (including over 300 for the fancy dress alone) so the site will be updated with new galleries and results during the week. Also within the 2-3 weeks, keep your eyes open for some familar faces popping up in shop windows around town…

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.