Riverfest is an annual, er, happening in Limerick. I don’t know much about it: I’ve never been because I dislike both crowds and festivals and it would take something remarkably interesting to outweigh my dislike and persuade me to attend any part of the thing. I took notice of this year’s event only because I wanted to find out what streets would be closed to traffic; the festival organisers did not, alas, think to provide a map showing the closures.
I have only two other comments on the event:
- the brochure [PDF] mentions a workshop called “Craft a River” but doesn’t say what, or indeed where, it is
- in a city whose history is so intertwined with that of the food industry, and which has, in the Milk Market, the best Irish market outside Cork, it seems ludicrous to import a “continental market” instead of showcasing local producers.
But I acknowledge that I am not really entitled to comment; Brian Leddin, on the other hand, has a better informed view.
Irish waterways history 