All set for Christmas Tractors Parade
Popular event takes place in Nenagh on December 23
Saturday, December 23, promises to be a day of Christmas fun, music and wonder for children of all ages, as, in the words of Marty Morrissey, ‘Hollywood comes to Nenagh’ once more for Ireland’s biggest Christmas Tractors parade.
The Christmas Tractors Parade will complete a day of fun, music, markets and wonder as the streets of the town are turned into a Christmas winter wonderland worthy of a visit from Santa and his Disney character helpers, who will take to the streets for the day.
More than 30 tractors, combine harvesters and vintage agri-vehicles, all bedecked in awesome arrangements of Christmas lights, will parade through the streets of Nenagh, in a unique demonstration of the contribution of agriculture and the rural community to our town and our county, as well as our ability to have fun at Christmas!
The event will be covered by national as well as local media and is expected to be streamed live to the Tipperary diaspora in far flung destinations - Australia, Canada, the US and all the places Tipperary people have landed.
Proceeds from the charity collection on the day and during the tractor parade will go to the Billy Goulding fund and Nenagh’s A Team youth clubs for autistic children and young people.
The Christmas funfair will run from 12 noon at Nenagh Railway Station, this year featuring a Giant Snow Globe, offering a very special Christmas photograph for children and families.
Free train rides will run from the railway station from 12 noon through the town and this year a Gingerbread House will feature among the attractions.
A Christmas Market will run outside Teach an Léinn from the morning and Libby Grey’s ‘Fifty Shades of Grey Choir’ will bring Christmas songs and music from the Bank of Ireland corner during the afternoon.
A giant raffle will be run in conjunction with the event, with tickets on sale at a table outside Eason’s in Pearse Street. Among the prizes are loads of timber, a battery operated tractor and trailer, a kids go-kart and many vouchers from the local businesses who continue to give such huge support to this event ever year.
Nenagh’s Fire Brigade will deliver Santa to town in advance of the parade, which this year will assemble at Liffey Mills before it heads into town. This gives people for whom standing to watch the parade is challenging an opportunity to view the Christmas Tractors from their car along the Lisbunny road into town.
Children who have decorated pedal tractors with lights must be at Chadwicks by 5.30pm to lead the parade into town. The route will be: McDonagh street, down Pearse Street, into Kenyon Street, turning into Stafford Street and finishing at Nenagh Mart where the tractors will park and photographs can be taken.
Organiser Albert Purcell has promised snow for the Christmas tractors event.
“We guarantee that snow will fall over our Christmas tractors this year. It will be a genuine winter wonderland event, and not to be missed!”
Saturday week, December 23, promises to be a day of fun, magic, music, markets and spectacle in Nenagh’s unique Christmas tractors.