At Blanchardstown Main Street · Main Street, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15
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Blanchardstown’s Christmas lights go on for the season with a short switch-on ceremony on Main Street, organised by Fingal County Council’s Events Unit. The Mayor of Fingal does the honours, with the Blanchardstown Brass Band providing the music that turns a five-minute civic switch-on into a proper community gathering. It is a small, local event rather than a big production, and it marks the point where Blanchardstown’s town centre turns fully festive for the run-up to Christmas.
The format is straightforward: the Blanchardstown Brass Band plays as the crowd gathers on Main Street, the Mayor of Fingal says a few words and leads the countdown, and the street’s Christmas lights come on together. It is outdoors and short, so it suits families doing an evening out for an hour rather than a full evening’s entertainment. Main Street’s shops and cafes typically stay open later on the night, so it is easy to turn the switch-on into a longer trip into the town centre.
For a town the size of Blanchardstown, the switch-on works as a low-key marker that the festive season has properly started, rather than a full-scale production. It draws a genuinely local crowd rather than visitors from further afield, and it is the kind of event people build an evening routine around year to year, meeting neighbours on the street before heading into the shopping centre or a nearby cafe once the lights are on.
Blanchardstown Main Street is a short walk from Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and the N3 Navan Road corridor. Dublin Bus routes serving Blanchardstown village centre stop close by, and Coolmine and Castleknock stations on the Dublin to Maynooth commuter rail line are both within a short drive or taxi ride. There is parking at the adjacent shopping centre for anyone driving in from elsewhere in Fingal.
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