CIBCA Makes News with its St. Patrick's Day Parade 2025!

RTE Footage - broadcast on St. Patrick's Day

On March 17, CIBCA's St. Patrick's Day Parade (held in Prague on Sunday March 16) was featured by Ireland's National Broadcaster, RTÉ. You can view the report by clicking the link here - https://www.rte.ie/video/id/23825/ The footage used in this report was taken from CIBCA Member Paul Dubsky's excellent Parade video, which we will be publishing soon, in its entirety.

On March 18, the Parade was included into a report in the Irish Independent, one of Ireland's leading newspapers, describing how three dancers from TJ Irish Dance Academy travelled around Ireland in a van in 2024, before returning to the Czech Republic to dance in the Parade. The article also highlights Darragh Price who was responsible for the organisation of the 2025 Parade along with Tereza Macoszek Jindrová of TJ Irish Dance Academy. You can read the article here - https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/from-travelling-ireland-in-a-van-to-helping-organise-pragues-biggest-ever-st-patricks-day-parade/a537954468.html

The Parade was also featured by Czech channel CNN Prima News, with multiple broadcasts on March 16 and 17, including interviews with Minister Robert Troy [Minister of State of the Government of Ireland with special responsibility for Financial Services, Credit Unions and Insurance], Tereza Bernardová [director of inSpiral Dance Company] and James Porter [CIBCA President]. You the can view the coverage below.

CNN Prima News broadcast, March 17, 2025

An earlier CNN Prima broadcast on March 16 also featured the Parade :