A DUBLINTOWN TEAM OF 20 PEOPLE WHO WILL WORK OVER 200 HOURS, IN JUST FOUR WEEKS,
HAVE BEGUN DECORATING 30 STREETS IN TIME FOR THE CHRISTMAS LIGHTING CEREMONIES
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It’s not Halloween yet but savvy shoppers will have spotted that DublinTown have started hanging the festive lights across Dublin’s city centre in preparation for #DublinatChristmas.
Christmas isn’t coming early but DublinTown are busy making sure Dublin looks magical for all to enjoy in time for the official lighting ceremonies in November.
Over the next 4 weeks the busy DublinTown team will hang and individually test over 1,000,000 lightbulbs and fixtures. With 30 streets to decorate and stretching across 4.5 kilometres of Dublin’s city centre, it takes a DublinTown team of 20 people, working throughout the nights, over 200 hours to completely erect the lights over the city for the festive season.
Richard Guiney, CEO of DublinTown, said:“Putting up the Christmas lights in Dublin city centre is the most carefully planned and coordinated operation that we do each year. Through coordination with businesses in the city we identify the most suitable times to put up the Christmas lights. The lights are officially switched on the same time each year too and this year they will be switched on from Sunday, 13th November until Saturday, 7th January and we are proud that 25 million people will walk under the Christmas lights this year.
Christmas is a magical time of year and the Dublin city centre has some of the most impressive lights in the country. This year we are proud to announce that Henry street & Mary street will be getting brand new Christmas lights which will enhance the look of entire street this festive season. I would encourage everyone to go to town for one of our Christmas lighting ceremonies to experience the magic of Dublin at Christmas.”
DUBLINTOWN – FESTIVE LIGHTS – FACTS AND FIGURES
- 30 streets in Dublin will be decorated with Christmas lights, stretching over 4.5 kilometres
- It takes 20 people working through the night, over 4 weeks and 200 hours to completely erect all the lights
- Each and every single bulb and fixture will be tested by the DublinTown team
- The lights will be illuminated for over 1,000 hours from November 13th– January 7th
- There are 47,350 individual light bulbs on Grafton Street alone
- There are over 1,000,000 individual light bulbs hung across the city
- 20 Dublin City Trees will be decorated with lights across Parnell Street and Liffey Street
- Over 10,000 light bulbs will decorate 2 trees on Liffey Street
- 160 crossovers and 26 wall mounts will be used
- Over 150,000 light bulbs will adorn the 3 spectacular light curtains on on Wicklow Street, Andrew Street and Johnson Court
- 25 million people will walk under the Christmas Lights in Dublin City Centre this year alone
- 2 spectacular lighting ceremony events will take place in November with special guests and performances to be announced.
The full programme for www.DublinatChristmas.ie will be announced in early November including upcoming events, special offers, family fun and much more.
Keep up to date with news about all upcoming Christmas events by using the hashtag #DublinAtChristmas, following @DublinTown on Twitter and visiting @DublinAtChristmas on Facebook.
For everything you wish for, go to Town.
DublinTown, Christmas Starts Here.
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About DublinTown
DublinTown the collective of 2,500 businesses from St Stephen’s Green to Parnell Street, works with its partners to enhance the appeal of the city centre as a place for shopping, recreation and business development. DublinTown organises the popular Dine in Dublin Restaurant Week and the Dublin Fashion Festival. It is also responsible for erecting Christmas lights on 30 individual streets in the city centre each year.
For more information, see www.wearedublintown.ie (organisational site) and www.dublintown.ie (consumer site)
Dublin at Christmas Website
www.dublinatchristmas.ie is the ultimate online guide for Christmas in the City Centre; this super seasonal website is Dublin’s one-stop-shop for information on all aspects of Christmas in Dublin’s fair city. The site will feature, details of events for all of the family, fun for you and your friends and great special offers in shops, restaurants, bars and hotels as well as opening hours, information and parking rate promotions along with essential travel information for shopping and socialising in Town. Dublin at Christmas and the website is a partnership between DublinTown and the City centre businesses, Dublin City Council and the transport options of the city centre under the NTA’s Transport for Ireland.
For further information please contact Mission PR & Communications Ltd.
Sabrina Sheehan: sabrinasheehan@missionpr.ie – 086 2503751
Lorraine Boshell: lorraine@missionpr.ie
Office: 01 6750695