The spectacular fireworks display from Wexford Quays – PART 1. Tonight 19th March 2011. This video was taken with my Samsung mobile phone, so please don’t expect awesome video and audio quality! Enjoy! *** This year Skyfest is making magic happen in the Viking town of Wexford. FIRED UP WITH 1.6 TONNES OF FIREWORKS, 6000 SPECIAL EFFECTS, 5 TONNES OF FIRING EQUIPMENT AND THE BIGGEST PYROTECHNIC WATERFALL EVER SEEN IN IRELAND. The Wexford Quays provide a stunning setting for the formidable pyrotechnic display where fireworks created rainbows of colours and amazing effects which lit up the skies over the river Slaney. Wexford Town Bridge came alive as hundreds of glittering tailed comets chased back and forth at high speed creating wave upon wave of colour across the Wexford skyline. The highlight was a breathtaking pyrotechnic waterfall that produced a 300m wide curtain of cascading silver fire, the largest of its kind ever seen in Ireland (All Thanks to the Internationally renowned, award-winning fireworks company, Pains Fireworks) and all in perfect synchrony to a mesmerising soundtrack. (unfortuately, we couldn’t capture this highlight from our position on the Wexford Quays) Performing live on the evening was Wexford based and internationally renowned street arts company Buí Bolg. Using the themes of fire and water Bui Bolg presented a mystical spectacle on the waterfront especially devised for the broadcast. Wexford Town was a hive of activity in the lead up to the …

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