Howth Peninsula Festival Events:

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Friday 29th June

Saturday 30th June / Sunday 1st July / All Day Events

Evening Entertainment – this programme samples a range of Howth’s extensive entertainment.

From Event Where Details
10pm Music Session Pier House  
10pm DJ Ba Mizu  

Saturday 30th July

Friday 29th June / Sunday 1st July / All Day Events

From Event Where Details
10:30am Cliff and Hill Walk
(Moderate to difficult – 2 hours)		   Register @ Festival Office on the day
10:30am Howth Historic walk - easy   Register @ Festival Office on the day
11am-12pm Card Craft – (age 8–12 ) Howth Library (Reserve @Library)
11:30 - 1pm “Shanties & Hornpipes” Songs & Dancing Nicky’s Plaice West Pier  
12pm Birdwatch Ireland Walk   Register @ Festival Office
12pm Seal Sanctuary & Nicky’s - Feeding the Seals Nicky’s Plaice West Pier  
1pm Ballet – Burrow School of Dance Sutton Festival Stage  
1:30pm Howth Drama Group – Musical Theatre Showcase Festival Stage  
2pm Mc Cormac Fay School of Irish Dancers - Junior Festival Stage  
2pm A Taste of Howth – Entrance €20
Sample Tastings from most of Howth Restaurants 		Festival Marquee Tickets at the festival office or at the door
2pm Middle Mountain Walk
Moderate to medium – 2 hours		 West Pier Register @ Festival Office
2pm Punch and Judy Festival Green  
2:30pm Martial Arts Exhibition - Irish Taekwondo Union Festival Green  
2:30pm Traditional Fishing Skills, Competition &
Display by Howth Fishermen		 West Pier  
2:30pm Seal Sanctuary & Nicky’s - Feeding the Seals Nicky’s Plaice West Pier  
2:30pm Latitude – Live Band Festival Stage  
3pm-6pm “Singing the Fishing” Sea Angling Club Howth Singing Circle & An Goilin Traditional Singers Club
3pm Celtic Dance Fusion – Abbey Tavern Dancers Festival Stage  
3:30pm Magic Show Festival Stage  
4pm Golf Ball Charity Race Abbey Tavern In aid of Howth/Sutton Lions Club & the Irish Cancer Society.

1200 golf Balls to be released outside Abbey Tavern. For sponsorship details contact Brendan 087 2571336
3:30pm Sickboy - Live Band Festival Stage  
4.30pm Punch & Judy Festival Green  
5pm Identity Parade - Live Band Festival Stage  
5:30pm Ballet - Burrow School of Dance Sutton Festival Stage  
6pm The Red Labels - Live Band Festival Stage  
6:30pm Festival of the Sea - Newfoundland Folk Band Festival Stage  
10pm DJ - Q102/Big Brothers Ray Shah Bloody Stream  
10pm DJ and Late Bar Skyy Bar Wrights Findlater  
10pm Trad Session Pier House  
10pm Bog o’ the Loughs Krugers  
10pm DJ Ba Mizu  

Sunday 1st July

Friday 29th June / Saturday 30th June / All Day Events

From Event Where Details
10:30am Cliff &Hill Walk   Register @ Festival Office
12:30pm Cooking Demonstrations Festival Marquee With Ross Lewis from Chapter One Restaurant & Lorcan Cribben from Bang Café
1pm Irish Coastguard Cliff Rescue Demonstration East Pier  
1pm Trad Session Pier House  
1:15pm Musical Theatrical Showcase Festival Stage  
1:30pm Ballet from Burrow School of Dance Sutton Festival Stage  
2pm Middle Mountain Walk   Register@Festival Office. Moderate to medium – 2 hours
2:15pm Howth Drama Group – Songs from Musicals Festival Stage  
2:30pm Offshore - Live Band Festival Stage  
2:30pm Magic Show Festival Marquee  
2pm – 4pm Samba Soccer Green @ East Pier  
3pm Ecumenical Blessing of the Boats West Pier The Monument
3pm Junior Irish Dancing – Mc Cormack Fay Festival Stage  
2:30pm Feeding the Seals - Seal Sanctuary & Nicky’s Nicky’s Plaice West Pier  
4pm Tug o' War Competition Register @Festival Office Teams of 7 welcome
3:30pm Punch and Judy Festival Marquee  
3:30pm Martial Arts with Tae Kwon Mudo Academy Festival Green  
4pm Ballet from Burrow School of Dance Sutton Festival Stage  
4pm Irish Coastguard Search and Rescue East Pier  
4:30pm 18th Empire - Live Band Festival Stage  
4:30pm Poetry Reading Recite or read your favorite poem St Columbanus Hall  
5pm Celtic Dance Fusion – (Abbey Tavern Dancers) Festival Stage  
5pm Jazz in Sky Bar roof top garden Wright's Findlater  
5:30pm Live Band – 21 Demands Festival Stage  
6pm BBQ in the beer garden The Bloody Stream  
6pm Wale Thompson –Live Hip & JuJu Music Festival Stage  
6pm BBQ Finale Ba Mizu Courtyard Tickets €15 at the door
6:30pm Red Kid - Live Band Festival Stage  
8pm Live Band Wrights Findlater  
9pm Festival Raffle 2007 The Summit Inn  
10pm DJ Ba Mizu  

All Day Events

Friday 29th June / Saturday 30th June / Sunday 1st July Events

Event Where Details
Seafood sampling West Pier  
Farmers & Fish Market Harbour Area Sat & Sun only
Family Fun from 2pm each day Harbour Area Punch & Judy, Face Painting, Paddy Long Legs Lumpy Magic show, Marcel So What, Gronk!!!
Fun Fair from 12pm each day West Pier ‘All the Fun of the Fair’
Island Boats East Pier Charge
Howth through the Eye of the Artist with Vincent McBrierty &
Diarmuid O’Cathasaigh		 St. Columbanus Hall Exhibition of Paintings
Sunday only
Tours of the Baily Lighthouse Baily Lighthouse Charge for bus
Seal Sanctuary at Nicky’s Plaice West Pier Sat & Sun12 – 5 (not suitable for under 12’s)
Tickets & Bus @ Baily Hotel
Vintage Vehicles from Howth Transport Museum Harbour Area  
National Transport Museum – Open day Howth Demesne Charge
Howth Tram on Display Harbour Area  
Art on the Pier East Pier  
Coastguard Station Open to the Public West Pier  
Spirit of Howth - Photographic Exhibition & Competition The Old Courthouse  
Donkey Rides Festival Green Small Charge
Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Radio Museum Martello Tower Hill Open 11am - 4pm
Charge
Window Display of Howth History - Watch the Windows!   Charts, Maps, Old Ads, Articles & Asgard Items

Howth Peninsula Festival is Supported by : Howth Tourism Limited, Fingal Tourism, Howth Sutton Community Council, Fingal County Council,The Dept. of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, DART, B.I.M., FÁS, Howth Sutton Baldoyle Chamber of Commerce,The Gardai Siochana, The Coastguard, The Civil Defence, The Howth RNLI and The Howth Fishermans Association.

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