Sligo Events

O’Connell Street Festival Saturday August 15th

What do music, communities, businesses, youth and the arts have in common? They all come together to ensure Sligo’s O’Connell Street remains a pedestrianised zone

Sligo Events is proud to be associated with the first O’Connell Street Festival. This August Saturday 15th the main street of Sligo will be occupied from 12 to 9pm.

Current events in the pipeline include -Children’s Street Mural Workshop, Street Theatre, Circus Club, Cirque des Legumes, Banner-making Workshop, Badge-making Workshop, T-Shirt Making Workshop, Youth Art Project, and are all subject to confirmation over the next two weeks.  Musical acts on the day include Yurodny.

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From the Festival Organisers:

On Saturday August 15^th, Sligo’s first O’Connell Street Festival will take place, on the three year anniversary of it’s pedestrianisation. The street will be occupied from afternoon to night with music, performances, public art projects, children’s games, and other festivities. The entire day is set aside to bring together a common voice to keep O’Connell Street pedestrianised. Musical acts come from both across Ireland and locally, as do artists and community groups.

This festival underscores the relevance of the people’s voice in determining Sligo’s future democratically and progressively. Recent deliberations by Sligo Borough Councillors have raised the idea of bringing a traffic corridor back onto O’Connell Street.

This suggestion is not only unpopular with the general public and local businesses, it is being met with resistance. The public has shown that O’Connell Street works – and must be further pedestrianised, not reverted to the grey traffic corridor of previous years. To keep the spirit of Sligo high and to further green the town for families and guests alike, O’Connell Street will continue to be a pedestrianised zone.

In a survey conducted by Sligo Weekender, 83% of Sligo residents support pedestrianisation and oppose efforts to open the street to traffic.

The street belongs to the community, who are all invited to gather together to speak, sing and make art about the future of Sligo, and how everyone shares that future.

Make O’Connell Street your street and help spread the word. Please direct friends and family to this page(Via facebook, email twitter etc) and mark Saturday August 15th in your diary.

Please contact oconnellstreetfest [at] gmail [dot] com for further information. (replacing at for @ and dot for .)