This weekend saw a pride in the Park event in Dungarvan, a small seaside town in Co Waterford.
A Large number of young children were amongst the pride festival-goers for “face-painting”, a “circus” and adult drag queen shows. The festival was located next to a children’s playground in Walton Park were families were having picnics.
Waterford has gone into hyper mode to promote Pride this year, ever since the alleged Pride flag burning there in June 2021.
Pride of the Deise has received €10,000’s in donations from Irish taxpayers through funding from Waterford County Council. The organising group also reportedly received funding from US pharma giant GSK who make PANADOL headache tablets in the town.
An adult entertainer who goes under the drag queen name of FiFi Fondue opened opened the event.
Face painting, balloons and a circus formed part of the Pride event and a group called Dreamgirls Drag Queens closed the event the weekend. The event was in very close proximity to a children’s playground. However, turnout didn’t seem to reflect the huge, month long, media promotion of the event by the organisers, claims locals who attended the event.
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