13th Annual Indy Irish Festival  September 19-21, 2008

Activities: 2007 Toast Contest Presented by INtake

Show your Irish pride and compete in the Indianapolis Irish Festival Toast Contest. Pub champions are crowned the weeks before the festival.  Pub champs qualify for the semi finals Friday night at the Irish Fest.  The Irish Toast contest champion will be crowned Saturday night, September 15 and will win round trip airfare** for two to Ireland. GOOD LUCK to all who compete!

Congratulations to our 2006 winner:  Ryan Myers

 

Registration

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Times

See listing by pub below
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2006 Toast Contest Pics

Contest Rules

·         Participants must be at least 21 years of age

·         Toast must be about an Irish subject such as love of Ireland, Irish culture, literature,
alcoholic beverage, humor or Irish lad or lass or other related recognizable
Irish subject matter

·         Toast presentation may be from an original composition or a toast previously written

·         Toast must be no longer than 60 seconds

·         Toast can not be read (no notes allowed) at competitions

·         Profanity is prohibited (Judges discretion)

·         Illegal or inappropriate conduct is not be allowed and will be grounds for expulsion from
the contest

·         Participant is responsible for his/her own volume of consumption of alcohol

·         Previous toast contest winners are not eligible

 

Participants will be judged on:

  • Toast subject matter
  • Creativity
  • Oration
  • Crowd applause

Example toast

Here's to the beer we love to drink
And the food we love to eat
Here's to our wives and sweethearts
May they never meet.
Here's champagne for our real friends
And real pain for our sham friends
And when this journey finally ends
May all of us find peace. Slainte!
 

2007 Contests (Check back often to see if dates/times have changed)

Date

Pub Host

Address/Phone

2007 Winners

 
Saturday
August 4th
9:00 p.m.
Pat Flynn's 5198 North Allisonville
317.475.0181
Michele Merritt

 

Friday
August 10th
9:00 p.m.
Muldoon's 111 W Main St
Carmel, IN
317.571.1319
Ann Marie Cameron

 

Saturday
August 11th
9:00 p.m.
Fionn MacCools

With Siochain

8211 E. 116th St., Fishers
317.863.2100
Fionn MacCool's
Todd Smith

 

Friday
August 17th
9:00 p.m.
O'Bryan's Nine Irish
Brothers Pub

With Siochain

119 Howard Avenue
West Lafayette, IN
765.746.I.PUB
O'Bryan's Nine Irish Brothers Pub
Stephanie Patterson

 

Saturday
August 18th
9:00 p.m.
T.J. Maloneys

With Siochain

800 E 81st Ave
Merrillville, IN 46410
219.755.0569
T.J. Maloneys
Kevin Fitzpatrick

 

Saturday
August 25th
9:00 p.m.
Dublin Pub

With Siochain

300 Wayne Ave
Dayton, OH 45410
937.224-7822
Dublin Pub
Daile Boulis

 

Saturday
August 25th
9:00 p.m.
Griffin's County Kerry Pub

7930 S. Emerson Road
317.889.7100

Terry West

 

Saturday
September 1st
9:00 p.m.
Claddagh Irish Pub
Plainfield

2539 Futura Park Way
317.838.9917
Claddagh Irish Pub

Jeremy Hanna

 

Friday
September 7th
9:00 p.m.
Claddagh Irish Pub
North Indianapolis
3835 East 96th Street
317.566.9318
Claddagh Irish Pub
 
 
Saturday
September 8th
9:00 p.m.
Claddagh Irish Pub
Downtown Indianapolis
234 South Meridian Street
317.822.6274
Claddagh Irish Pub
 
 
Saturday
September 8th
9:30 p.m.
P.J. O’Keefe’s
Zionsville

With Living Proof

4400 Weston Pointe
317.733.9620
P.J. O'Keefe's

 

First Round Semi-Finals

Friday
September 14th
7:45 p.m.
Indy Irish Festival
O'Brien Automotive Family
Pub Stage
Military Park  

Finals

Saturday
September 15th
9:00 p.m.
Indy Irish Festival
O'Brien Automotive Family
Pub Stage
Military Park  

**Winner of the toast contest will win $1,000 credit to www.visitireland.com. 

 Winner can apply the credit as desired but the credit is large enough to cover the following types of travel: 
 a.   Low or mid season roundtrip air from USA to Ireland
 b.   3 night / 4 day Dublin stay for 2 at a centrally located 4 star Dublin hotel, 3 day
       Dublin hopper bus pass and 1 day excursion outside the city (i.e. Blarney or
       Malahide Castle, Wicklow or similar).
 c.    6 Night / 7 day B&B self-drive vacation for 2 people with manual shift car (low or
       mid season).
 d.    Self-Catering cottage with rental car for 1 week in Killarney (low or mid season)
       to accommodate 4 people with mid-size manual shift car.
 c.   6 Night / 7 day B&B self-drive vacation for 2 people.

  Previous toast winners are not eligible.