Festival of the Erne 2008

Calling all Snappers

cianwalsh — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:52:24 +0000

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.

Opening Parade of the Festival

cianwalsh — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:42:56 +0000

It was a fine day for the newly crowned lady of the erne, Amanda Breslin (from South Fermanagh) to bring watch the crowds for the 2008 Festival of the Erne.

Festival of the Erne 2008

cianwalsh — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:11:15 +0000

Is it a bird?? Is it a plane??? No, it’s ………. well, you’ll just have to wait till Monday 4th August 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!

Wonder, awe and mystery are the themes of the 2008 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.

Another Year

cianwalsh — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:54:28 +0000

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.

Congratulations

cianwalsh — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:23:11 +0000

Well done to our new Lady of the Erne, Sinead McTernan representing Donegal.

She will be present during the Festival so be sure to pass on your best wishes to our 2007 winner.
Born in London, Sinead moved to her mother’s native Donegal when she was three years old and is our Donegal Lady tonight. Sinead is currently studying professional cookery at the Tourism College, Killybegs and we are told she’s a top hand in the kitchen having won a Gold Medal and Overall Winner a the Regional Cookery competitions in October 2006, not to mention three Bronze Medals in the RDS…so move over Jamie Oliver! Besides cooking, Sinead loves attending concerts and festivals.

Lady of the Erne Entrants Online

cianwalsh — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:28:02 +0000

We have posted profiles and pictures of this year’s entrants in the Lady of the Erne section. Good luck to everyone on Friday!

So what’s on in Festival ‘07?

cianwalsh — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:37:59 +0000

2007 sees the 31st year of Belturbet’s Festival of the Erne so hold on to your hats as this year promises to build on last year’s success! Due to popular demand some of the top-class events returning this year include, The Fancy Dress (adults and child), raft-racing, wakeboarding, row-boat racing, floats parade, angling competitions and arts and heritage acitivites. Watch out for the Scouts ‘Sunset Sunrise Overnight Camp’ on Wednesday 1st August. Start your preparations for the Scarecrow competition and Best Kept Garden, so throw on thoes dancing shoes and prepare to be swept away!!

Here’s a taster of what to expect from Belturbet’s 10 day Festival of the Erne:

Angling contests
Dog Show
BonnyBaby
Busking
Sporting competitions including golf, football, atheletics
Dancing, music and singing every night
Street Theatre
Fancy Dress
Quizzes
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
Beat-on-the-Street
Raft race
Treasure Hunts

For Children
Fancy Dress, Junior Talent Competition, Treasure Hunt, mobile cinema, teddy bear’s picnic, pyjama party, Face Painters, Scouts Jamboree and lots more.

For Sport Enthusiasts
Major Course Angling Competitions, rowboat racing, Sports Day, Football leagues, Golf Tournaments, Bowling Competition.

For Thrill Seekers
Check out the Helicoptor Rides and Wakeboarding display at the Lawn Jetty by National Champion. Pig Racing, Self-made rafting contest and a whole lot more!

For Chillaxers
Art Exhibition of scenes from around the locality, art and crafts fair, Heritage walk of the town, music nightly across the town, featuring traditional Irish, rock, pop, jazz, soul and Samba!

For The Show-offs
Annual Fancy dress Fri 3rd August. Samba band & Mummers will kick start the night!!! Also includes Iron-stomach contest, wellie-throwing, milk-drinking competition.

For music fans

A variety of concerts will take place throughout the week covering different styles such as rock, jazz, classical and salsa.

For Everyone Else
Marching Bands, Street Entertainers and Float Parade, Pub Quizes, Senior citizens Outing, Scarecrow Competition, Best kept garden competition and Fireworks Display!

2006 Fancy Dress Pics Now Online

cianwalsh — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:29:19 +0000

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

What do you mean there’s a Fancy Dress on?

The Council workers take a break

Greens are good for you

Wigs are the new black this season

Superman gets all the girls

Sunglasses at Night..why not

Can someone plug a brother in?

Where’s me troosers?

If you’re missing tea towels, you know where they’ve gone

And your curtains

Arrghhh!! That’s must be the drink talking….

Ribena was down to one berry by the end of the night

On day release from the Louvre

Even nature needs a night off every now and again…..

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman

Which way to Aintree?

Can’t talk now..Have to invade Poland.

Anyone for a haircut?

Crossing the Finishing Line

cianwalsh — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:17:16 +0000

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…

Move over Galway Races

cianwalsh — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 02:31:03 +0000

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…..