Indy Irish Fest: Activities: Toast Contest

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

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Times

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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.