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Belfast Telegraph
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
What Belfast's top musicians made of Wexford's Fleadh and why 2026 will be the ‘biggest and the best of all time'
Wexford hosted the largest ever attended Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann last week, but Belfast has set its sights on going bigger again next year Niall McClean and Mervyn MccCleery are the Chairperson and PRO respectively, of Ards Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, the Belfast branch which will bring the world's largest annual festival of Irish traditional music and dance to the city for the first time ever in 2026. They were both staying in Whites of Wexford, in the heart of town, and by the time we spoke on Saturday night, the end was in sight. Perhaps relief for both of them that a long, hot, relentlessly busy and enjoyable week away from home was coming to an end. But a little nervousness that Belfast's first ever Fleadh would immediately follow the largest ever and most successful Fleadh in history.
Irish Independent
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
What Belfast's top musicians made of Wexford's Fleadh and why 2026 will be the ‘biggest and the best of all time'
Wexford hosted the largest ever attended Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann last week, but Belfast has set its sights on going bigger again next year Niall McClean and Mervyn MccCleery are the Chairperson and PRO respectively, of Ards Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, the Belfast branch which will bring the world's largest annual festival of Irish traditional music and dance to the city for the first time ever in 2026. They were both staying in Whites of Wexford, in the heart of town, and by the time we spoke on Saturday night, the end was in sight. Perhaps relief for both of them that a long, hot, relentlessly busy and enjoyable week away from home was coming to an end. But a little nervousness that Belfast's first ever Fleadh would immediately follow the largest ever and most successful Fleadh in history.
