Riverfest 2019

TheDiceMan2020

If you were the pay attention to the media in Limerick, the politicians and the people with skin-in-the-game (wannabe politicians, organisers and local personalities) you'd think Riverfest was some sort of amazing achievement.

In reality it has more in common with that pathetic funfair in Father Ted with the tunnel of goats.

Fashion Friday - Watch Celia Holman Lee get handed a platform to promote herself in Arthurs Quay. Come along and see Limerick's top model parade her stable of aspiring models past Wok-To-Go and the public toilets.

Arthurs Quay Park - A garden shed pub, some tacky stalls selling crap and overpriced pick-n-mix sweets and a few hotdogs etc coupled with bad DJ's blaring worse music and funfair rides that are a complete rip-off. Endure endless queues to gain access to this free event. Also make sure to completely enclose the park from prying eyes in case they see something that is...erm free.

No jet-ski's on the river this year, no flyboarding, no shark boat.

A firework show that was admittedly good but far too short.

Another visit by the Navy ship and again more endless queues on the Dock Road.

An "amazing" BBQ competition that is somehow touted as an "event" and "entertainment". How? A handful of companies enter. Might be interesting if you are involved but watching somebody else doing a BBQ is not entertaining in the slightest.

The sunshine helps to cover over a lot of the cracks but there is no escaping the reality that what is being touted as entertainment is anything but and the huge crowds owe more to the Great Limerick Run than anything being put forward as "Riverfest".

It's embarrassing frankly. Pure crap.

Glenomra

I have no skin in the game, not from Limerick but my friends and I had a great weekend. the run was only on one day, the large crowds were there on three days.

Stab*City

TheDiceMan2020 wrote: »

If you were the pay attention to the media in Limerick, the politicians and the people with skin-in-the-game (wannabe politicians, organisers and local personalities) you'd think Riverfest was some sort of amazing achievement.

In reality it has more in common with that pathetic funfair in Father Ted with the tunnel of goats.

Fashion Friday - Watch Celia Holman Lee get handed a platform to promote herself in Arthurs Quay. Come along and see Limerick's top model parade her stable of aspiring models past Wok-To-Go and the public toilets.

Arthurs Quay Park - A garden shed pub, some tacky stalls selling crap and overpriced pick-n-mix sweets and a few hotdogs etc coupled with bad DJ's blaring worse music and funfair rides that are a complete rip-off. Endure endless queues to gain access to this free event. Also make sure to completely enclose the park from prying eyes in case they see something that is...erm free.

No jet-ski's on the river this year, no flyboarding, no shark boat.

A firework show that was admittedly good but far too short.

Another visit by the Navy ship and again more endless queues on the Dock Road.

An "amazing" BBQ competition that is somehow touted as an "event" and "entertainment". How? A handful of companies enter. Might be interesting if you are involved but watching somebody else doing a BBQ is not entertaining in the slightest.

The sunshine helps to cover over a lot of the cracks but there is no escaping the reality that what is being touted as entertainment is anything but and the huge crowds owe more to the Great Limerick Run than anything being put forward as "Riverfest".

It's embarrassing frankly. Pure crap.

man those pick n mix were a crazy price. It cost me a fiver for a few jellies and a long strand of liquorice. See the faces on all the people when they were asked to pay those prices. some cheek.

stefanovich

TheDiceMan2020 wrote: »

If you were the pay attention to the media in Limerick, the politicians and the people with skin-in-the-game (wannabe politicians, organisers and local personalities) you'd think Riverfest was some sort of amazing achievement.

In reality it has more in common with that pathetic funfair in Father Ted with the tunnel of goats.

Fashion Friday - Watch Celia Holman Lee get handed a platform to promote herself in Arthurs Quay. Come along and see Limerick's top model parade her stable of aspiring models past Wok-To-Go and the public toilets.

Arthurs Quay Park - A garden shed pub, some tacky stalls selling crap and overpriced pick-n-mix sweets and a few hotdogs etc coupled with bad DJ's blaring worse music and funfair rides that are a complete rip-off. Endure endless queues to gain access to this free event. Also make sure to completely enclose the park from prying eyes in case they see something that is...erm free.

No jet-ski's on the river this year, no flyboarding, no shark boat.

A firework show that was admittedly good but far too short.

Another visit by the Navy ship and again more endless queues on the Dock Road.

An "amazing" BBQ competition that is somehow touted as an "event" and "entertainment". How? A handful of companies enter. Might be interesting if you are involved but watching somebody else doing a BBQ is not entertaining in the slightest.

The sunshine helps to cover over a lot of the cracks but there is no escaping the reality that what is being touted as entertainment is anything but and the huge crowds owe more to the Great Limerick Run than anything being put forward as "Riverfest".

It's embarrassing frankly. Pure crap.

I'd love to see this review in print!