Wicklow Regatta Festival

05/11/2026

Have you voted for us? It only takes a minute!

🎉 WE NEED YOUR VOTE! 🎉

We’re absolutely delighted that the Wicklow Regatta Festival has been shortlisted for the Honouring Excellence in the Community Award, sponsored by Burke Oil, at the Town & District Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2026! ❤️

The Regatta is all about bringing our community together, celebrating Wicklow, supporting local businesses and creating wonderful memories for all ages.

Now we need your support! If you love the Regatta and what it brings to our town, please take a moment to vote for us. Every vote counts!

🗳️ VOTE HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFpKnrJG_Oz3XRVNwFeTgleA7uSQmyIaTaARErKYWeac-9Mg/viewform

Voting closes Friday, 13th November.
Please share this post and spread the word. Thank you for supporting the Regatta and our wonderful Wicklow community! 💙

03/11/2026

🎉 WE NEED YOUR VOTE! 🎉

We’re absolutely delighted that the Wicklow Regatta Festival has been shortlisted for the Honouring Excellence in the Community Award, sponsored by Burke Oil, at the Town & District Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2026! ❤️

The Regatta is all about bringing our community together, celebrating Wicklow, supporting local businesses and creating wonderful memories for all ages.

Now we need your support! If you love the Regatta and what it brings to our town, please take a moment to vote for us. Every vote counts!

🗳️ VOTE HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFpKnrJG_Oz3XRVNwFeTgleA7uSQmyIaTaARErKYWeac-9Mg/viewform

Voting closes Friday, 13th November.
Please share this post and spread the word. Thank you for supporting the Regatta and our wonderful Wicklow community! 💙

31/10/2026

We were delighted to hand over a cheque for €1,500 to the Wicklow Town Memory Cafe from the proceeds of our open air quiz night held during the Wicklow Regatta Festival in partnership with the Wicklow & District Lions Club. We had a record breaking number of quiz teams this year which is reflected the amount raised and we are grateful as always to the Wicklow Lions for their continuing support of the festival and multiple causes in the district.

26/10/2026

We were delighted to have East Coast Credit Union on board as a sponsor of this year’s Splash Sunday at the Wicklow Regatta Festival! 💦🎉

Splash Sunday is always a highlight of the festival, bringing plenty of fun, excitement and family entertainment to Wicklow Town.

The support of local businesses and organisations like East Coast Credit Union plays a vital role in helping us deliver the fantastic programme of events that our community looks forward to every year, many of which are completely FREE for everyone to enjoy. 🙌

From everyone on the Wicklow Regatta Festival committee, thank you for your generous support and for helping us make this year’s festival another memorable one for the people of Wicklow! ❤️

17/08/2026

09/08/2026

Congratulations to the winners of the kids photography competition and a huge thanks to the Wicklow Town Business group for organising this event! Thank you also to the sponsors who came on board with some fantastic prizes!!!

🎉 Wicklow Regatta Kids' Photography Competition Winners!
A huge congratulations to our three winners:
📷 Elaine Byrne – Wicklow Bridge
📷 Callan Adam – Fireworks
📷 MJ Lambert Murphy – golly Fishing
These winners are listed in no particular order.
A massive thank you to all the children who entered the Wicklow Regatta Kids' Photography Competition. We hope you all had great fun taking your photos and being part of this year's festival. Your creativity and enthusiasm made the competition a real success!
Well done to everyone who took part! 👏🎉
Adults will done soon as the judges check them all

09/08/2026

🦆🎉 FOUR EXTRA DUCK RACE WINNERS!🎉🦆

For the first time ever, all 2,000 ducks in the Wicklow Regatta Duck Race completely SOLD OUT!

We were absolutely blown away by the support, and as a little extra celebration, we decided to pull four additional winners at random from this year’s ducks.

Each of our four lucky winners will receive a Wicklow Town Voucher:

🎉 James Keegan
🎉 Cillian McGettigan
🎉 Leah McCarthy
🎉 Julie

Huge congratulations to you all! 💙💛

We also wanted these extra prizes to be another way of saying thank you to the local businesses that support the Wicklow Regatta year after year.

Wicklow Town Vouchers are a brilliant way to shop local. They can be spent in a wide range of participating businesses across Wicklow Town and the surrounding area, meaning the money stays within our local economy and supports the businesses that support our community. They are available in €5, €10, €20 and €50 denominations.

You can purchase Wicklow Town Vouchers from Bridge Street Books Wicklow, Connolly’s Menswear or the Wicklow Town & District Chamber office at Wicklow Enterprise Centre, and you can check the Chamber website for the current list of participating businesses.

So if you are looking for a birthday gift, thank-you present, prize or just an excuse to treat someone, consider a Wicklow Town Voucher and support local while you do it.

And finally, thank you to every single person who bought one of our 2,000 ducks. Selling out for the first time was a fantastic milestone for the Regatta and your support helps us continue bringing a huge programme of free events to Wicklow Town.

2,000 ducks. SOLD OUT. What a year!🦆🦆🦆💙💛

06/08/2026

💙💛 A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO WICKLOW HIRE 💛💙

Throughout this year’s festival, we faced several serious logistical challenges which, through no fault of our own, could easily have resulted in events being cancelled.

But whenever we found ourselves in difficulty, Barry O’Reilly and his team at Wicklow Hire stepped up to save the day.

Again and again, Barry responded with generosity, practical support and a genuine determination to help the Regatta continue. His help made a real difference, not only to the committee, but to every person who was able to enjoy an event because a problem was solved behind the scenes.

Barry and Wicklow Hire have supported the Regatta for many years, always doing whatever they can to help our town’s festival succeed. We are incredibly grateful for that continued support and very lucky to have a business like Wicklow Hire in our community.

Please remember to support local businesses. These are the people and businesses Wicklow relies on, and they are often the ones quietly working in the background to keep our community events going.

From the entire Wicklow Regatta Committee, thank you Barry and all the team at Wicklow Hire. We truly could not have done it without you. 💙💛

05/08/2026

Don’t miss your chance to enter!!!

Link below to enter https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18tiiDQVF7/

05/08/2026

🧡 MEET THE TEAM BEHIND THE 2026 WICKLOW REGATTA FESTIVAL 🧡

With more than 50 free family events, this year’s Wicklow Regatta offered something for everyone to enjoy. There was live music, creative workshops, opportunities to learn new skills, events supporting local businesses, much-loved Regatta traditions and exciting new additions to the programme.

We saw old friends, made new ones and created wonderful memories together. None of it would have been possible without the hardworking team behind the scenes.

The 2026 festival programme was organised by a small committee of just 10 dedicated volunteers. From completing permit applications and securing sponsorship to booking workshops, sourcing raffle prizes, updating the website, printing posters, numbering ducks and managing the thousands of other jobs involved, this team worked tirelessly to bring the festival to life.

Every committee member works full time and has family and other commitments outside the Regatta. Yet, when festival time arrives, they roll up their sleeves, put on the high-vis and do whatever needs to be done. So much of their work happens quietly behind the scenes, with around 90% of it never seen by the public.

The Wicklow Regatta has been bringing our community together for 148 years, and we are incredibly proud to play our part in continuing this very special tradition.

Please join us in celebrating and thanking our wonderful 2026 Wicklow Regatta Festival Committee.

📸 Pictured from left to right:
Lorraine Gannon, Harry Porter, Alex Ludgate, John Goodman, Joanne Costello, Shane Doyle, Majella Brohan, Michael Brohan, Colleen Brohan and Kirsty Doyle.

There is still plenty more from this year’s festival to share, but today we want to shine a light on the team whose commitment, energy and hard work made it all possible. 👏🧡