PICTURES: St Patrick’s Day parade 2023 gets underway in Dublin

Jayden Delaney, 11, from Kildare, wearing Irish flag face paint to enjoy the Saint Patrick's Day parade in Dublin

DUBLIN’S St Patrick’s Parade and Festival 2023 is underway in the capital – and it has inclusivity at its heart.

'We are one' is the theme for today's celebrations, which the festival organisers describe as their "most ambitious ever".

“On our national day of cultural celebration, St. Patrick’s Festival invites those across the world to come together to collectively celebrate, share, laugh, perform, participate and remember that ‘Mar a chéile sinn’ (we are one),” they explain.

Dallas actor Patrick Duffy with the Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy enjoying the Saint Patricks Day Festival in Dublin

Dallas star Patrick Duffy and Republic of Ireland Women’s National Football Team manager Vera Pauw are leading the parade as International Guest of Honour and Grand Marshall respectively.

Irish women's soccer manager and Grand Parade Marshal Vera Pauw and Diane Caldwell enjoying the Saint Patricks Day Festival

And thousands have turned out to line the streets as the colourful procession passes.

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The Dublin Fire Brigade Pipe Band with an Irish Wolf Hound in the Saint Patricks Day Festival

Will Whelan (age 3) from Marino, dressed up to enjoy the Saint Patrick's Day parade

Kuldeep Tomar and Arnab Ganguly from India, wearing Irish flag face paint to enjoy the Saint Patrick's Day parade in Dublin

Jayden Delaney, 11, from Kildare, wearing Irish flag face paint to enjoy the Saint Patrick's Day parade

The crowds watch on as the colourful procession passes through the streets of Dublin

Festive facial hair at the parade in Dublin

Irish women's soccer manager and Grand Parade Marshal Vera Pauw with Diane Caldwell and Paula Gorham, the first female international to score a goal in 1973