Sport and Other Events
Events held on the Common include:
- Since 1977 the Latin American football League has played organised football on the red car pitches located on the south side of the common
- British Australian Rules Football League Grand Final, for which it is the traditional venue
- Colourscape Music Festival (one venue) since 1995
- Lesbian & Gay Pride festivals since 1996 and 1997
- The music festival Get Loaded In The Park
- Large scale music events, including 'Picnic Rocks' held by Action Against Hunger
- The South West Four music festival each year
- Every Easter and February George Irvin's Funfair visits the Common
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Famous quotes containing the words sport and, sport and/or events:
“Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)