St. Patrick’s Festival aims to offer a programme and service that allows everyone an equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from the Festival.
St. Patrick’s Festival is happy to provide accommodations, to the best of our ability, to allow individuals with disabilities and additional needs to participate in the Festival’s workforce, services, and activities.
Attending the Parade
We have a number of areas along the Parade route that are reserved for attendees that have additional needs.
Applications for the Relaxed Parade Space 2026 will open in January 2026.
The Relaxed Parade Space, brought to you by Dublin City Council, with additional support from AsIAm, Neurodiversity Ireland and Bank of Ireland, is a space designed to support the needs of neurodivergent families and individuals, and those with sensory processing differences, ensuring that the St. Patrick's Day Parade is a safe and happy place for all to enjoy.
Located at Bank of Ireland College Green, with access points at either end, the Relaxed Parade Space will be open from 10am – 4pm and will offer attendees a safe space, away from the crowded streets from which to view and enjoy the parade.
There will be extra space to allow freedom of movement to those who need it, limited additional seating, dedicated sensory areas, entertainment before the Parade, accessible toilet areas, private break areas, and a cloakroom for larger bags and buggies etc.
Successful applicants will be contacted in advance of the Festival with more details including an easy read guide and a visual guide, and will receive a pack that includes wristbands and more information in the week beginning 10 March.
*Allocation of places for the St. Patrick’s Festival Relaxed Parade Space
Due to the high volume of applications for our Relaxed Parade Space, allocation of access wristbands is made on the basis of a lottery. Successful applicants will be contacted by email and required to confirm attendance. Any applicant offered tickets in lottery, but who have not confirmed attendance by the above date will forfeit their place in the Relaxed Parade Space.
Applications for our wheelchair-accessible viewing areas for St. Patrick's Festival 2026 will open in January 2026.
We provide wheelchair-accessible viewing areas along the Parade route:
- One on O’Connell Street
- One on Westmoreland Street
- One at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
If you, a friend or family member are a wheelchair user, you can come and view the parade in one of our designated wheelchair viewing areas. These areas are prioritised for wheelchair users but can also be used by people who use mobility aids or have limited mobility, in order to give them some more space and comfort whilst the parade goes by.
Family members can accompany the wheelchair user / person with limited mobility in this designated area.
St. Patrick's Festival want to make our events fully accessible, for all to enjoy. We want to make it possible for disabled young people and adults to make positive memories at St. Patrick's Festival.
At the Parade, in addition to the wheelchair portaloo at each of our wheelchair areas, there will be an Accessoloo with a hoist and changing bench made available for use. This will be parked up on D’Olier Street (Fleet St. Junction).
The St. Patrick’s Festival Parade is fully wheelchair accessible.
All of St. Patrick's Festival's outdoors programme is fully wheelchair accessible. This includes the Treasure Hunt, Céilí Mór and all performances tagged as 'outdoors' on our website.
Our indoors programme is in partnerships with various venues across the city, please check accessibility details with each individual venue.
St. Patrick’s Festival welcomes the accompaniment of service animals at the Parade and Festival Quarter.
For events that are part of the One City programme you will need to check with each individual venue.
Feedback
Through its experience of dealing with and providing services to a wide range of people with various individual needs, St. Patrick’s Festival has learned, and continues to learn, from its interaction with its customers.
If you are a user of this website or an attendee of any of our events and encounter a difficulty that can be rectified or alleviated by our team, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.
If you have queries or feedback regarding accessibility in any aspect of St. Patrick’s Festival, please get in contact with us.