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

Activities: 2008 Toast Contest

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 20 and will win round trip airfare** for two to Ireland. GOOD LUCK to all who compete!


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!
 

2008 Contests (Check back often to see if dates/times have changed)

Date

Pub Host

Address/Phone

2008 Winners

 
Friday
July 25th
11
:00 p.m.
Northside K of C

Brickyard Festival
8:30pm
2100 E 71st Street
Indianapolis

(317) 253-3471

Helen Andrews

 

Friday
August 8th
10:30 p.m.
P.J. O'Keefes

With
Siochain
4400 Weston Pointe
Zionsville

(317) 733-9620

Chris Brown

 

Saturday
August 16th
10:00 p.m.
PRACTICE ONLY

Fionn MacCool's

With Siochain

8211 E. 116th St.
Fishers

(317)863-2100
PRACTICE ONLY

 

Saturday
August 23rd
8:00 p.m.
Muldoon's

With Island Breeze
111 W Main St.
Carmel

(317) 571-1319

 

 

Friday
September 5th
9:00 p.m.
O’Bryan’s Nine Irish Brothers

 

119 Howard Avenue
West Lafayette

(765) 746-4782

 

 

Friday
September 5th
10
:00 p.m.
Fox and Hound  - Carmel

 
14490 Lowes Way
Carmel


(317) 844-0075
 

 

Friday
September 5th
8:00 p.m.
Pat Flynn’s Irish Pub

 
5198 Allisonville Rd
Indianapolis

(317) 475-0181

 

 

Saturday
September 6th
 
Andrus O’Reilly’s

 
36 South Pennsylvania St.
Indianapolis


(317)
974-0674
 

 

Saturday
September 6th
9:00 p.m.
Brockway Pub

 
12525 Old Meridian St
Indianapolis

(317) 669-8080
 

 

Friday
September 12th
10:00 p.m.
 
Fox and Hound  - Castleton

 
4901 E. 82nd St
Indianapolis


(317) 913-1264
 

 

Friday
September 12th
10:30 p.m.

 
Claddagh Irish Pub - Northside
 
3835 E. 96th Street
Fishers

(317) 569-3663
 

 

Saturday
September 13th
10:00 p.m.
 
Fionn MacCool's

With Highland Reign

8211 E. 116th St.
Fishers

(317)863-2100
 

 

Saturday
September 13th
10:30 p.m.

 
Claddagh Irish Pub - Downtown

 

234 S Meridian St
Indianapolis

(317) 822-6274
 

 

Saturday
September 13th
10:30 p.m.

 
Claddagh Irish Pub - Plainfield 2539 Futura Park Way
Plainfield

(317) 838-9917
 

 

Wednesday
September 17th
9:30 p.m.

 
Mo’s Irish Pub

 

13193 Levinson Lane
Noblesville

(317) 770-9020
 

 

First Round Semi-Finals

Friday
September 19th
 
Indy Irish Festival
O'Brien Automotive Family
Pub Stage
Military Park  

Finals

Saturday
September 20th
 
Indy Irish Festival
O'Brien Automotive Family
Pub Stage
Military Park  

 

  Previous final toast winners are not eligible.