Spectacular parade promised at this year's Christmas Tractors Nenagh showcase

The now famous Christmas Tractors Nenagh spectacular parade is back this Sunday bigger and better than ever.

Around 30 tractors and farm machinery of all shapes and sizes are expected to parade through the town on Sunday evening, bringing Christmas cheer and raising money for worthy causes.

The countdown has already begun with Santa’s post box outside Edel’s Boutique on Kenyon Street. Pop your letter with a stamped addressed envelope inside into the box and you will get a reply before the big day itself.

This Saturday and again on Sunday, the Polar Express will be making its way around Nenagh, aided by around 20 cartoon characters such as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, the Minions and Pepa Pig.

This year’s Christmas Tractors Nenagh will raise funds for Billy’s Recovery Story and the A-Team.

Billy Goulding, a two-year-old local boy, went from being a healthy child to being paralysed from the neck down due to the virus, transverse myelitas.

Doctors gave the family little hope of his survival, but with sheer determination, hard work and positivity, Billy’s future is looking a lot more positive.

Thanks to Christmas Tractors Nenagh, supporters and the general public, the Gouldings have been able to avail of advanced technology to help Billy’s recovery.

The A-Team is a local youth club for people with autism. Their vision is to create an autism-positive community in north Tipperary with regular youth activities; to secure a permanent club building and to support parents of children and young adults with autism.

As well as helping these groups, the organisers want this event to showcase Nenagh as a place to do your Christmas shopping and to spend time relaxing in its many cafés and restaurants.

An addition to this year’s parade will be the Christmas market on Kenyon Street at Teach an Léinn, which will open at 10am on Sunday.

A children’s amusement park will be based in Kenyon Street all day Sunday, and the Christmas Cracker, a mobile Santa workshop with elves making toys will also make its way through the streets.

On Saturday and Sunday, the Christmas Tractors Nenagh shop will open on Pearse Street where people can buy Christmas Tractors Nenagh merchandise such as woolly hats.

Since it was first launched in 2018, the event has grown to be a major national attraction, featuring on national television and attracting visitors from outside the country.

The organisers have pointed out that a number of streets will be closed from late afternoon on Sunday for the parade, which is due to start at 6pm.