Dublin Pride Festival 2026 June 24th-28th
5 amazing days and 5 wondrous nights packed with community and cultural events and activities.
Use the TFI journey Planner / TFI Live App to plan your route wwell in advance, as public transport will be particularly busy on the weekend 26-28 June with multiple festivals and large events taking place in Dublin.
Dublin Pride 2026
“ONE STORY – MANY VOICES”
Do you remember your first Pride?
If you are young, perhaps it was a celebration on a grand scale. The city comes alive with colour, noise and joy. Streets closed, crowds swelling, glitter catching the light, a sense of being part of something vast and visible, undeniable and unashamed. It breaks something inside you. There’s a moment where the feeling lands: you are not alone. That feeling stays with you.
Of course, it wasn’t always like this. Some of us remember a different Pride. Smaller. Quieter. Making our way through the city with a little more caution, a little less certainty. For many people, across Ireland and around the world, that reality hasn’t changed. Even so, there is always that same, unmistakable truth. We are not alone. This is why this year’s theme matters.
“One Story – Many Voices” is about the thread that connects us across time, across borders, across very different lived experiences. We share a story that shifts with the narrator, and while no single voice can represent us all, every voice counts.
Our community has never been just one thing. It is shaped by different identities and histories, by many ways of moving through the world: through race, gender, trans and non-binary experience, culture, faith, migration, through all the ways a life can be lived openly, or carefully, or somewhere in between.
Some stories are loud and luminous. Some are quieter, hard-won, still unfolding. Some are celebrated. Some are still fighting to be heard. All of them matter.
This theme is not about flattening those differences into a single narrative. It’s about holding them together and recognising that what connects us is not sameness, but solidarity. That we can stand alongside one another without needing our experiences to be identical.
We stand on stories that came before us, and alongside those still being written. Pride has always been about visibility, but visibility is not a single spotlight. It’s a constellation, brightened by every voice that joins it, strengthened by every story that’s told. However you show up, in full colour, in quiet courage, in celebration, in defiance, in reflection or in joy, you are part of it.
Your voice matters. Our story matters. Together, we create something none of us could hold alone.
One Story. Many Voices.
The Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride Festival takes place from June 24th – 28th, The Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride March and Parade takes place on Saturday June 27th.
The Dublin Pride festival culminates with the Pride March and Parade on Saturday, June 27th.
It goes from O’Connell Street to Merrion Street Lower.
The parade starts at 12.30 and lasts approximately 2 hours.
The parade finishes at Pride Village, at Merrion Square, where there is a festival of activites arranged – including live music, cultural performances, food vendors, and community booths
For more information including maps and other events, please see below:
Merrion Square Park
Events include
Improving Care for Older LGBTQIA+ People
June 24 @ 6:30 pm
Official Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride Festival Opening Night
June 24 @ 7:30 pm
BUTTON FACTORY Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
Pride At Work Coffee Club Pride Special
June 25 @ 10:00 am
Lavender Walk – Tonie’s Queer History Walking Tour of Dublin
June 25 @ 11:00 am
Barnardo Square 3 Dame Street, Dublin 2, Dublin 2, Ireland
Pride Social Line Dancing Night
June 25 @ 7:30 pm
The Vintage Inn 74 Irishtown Road, Dublin 4, Dublin 4, Ireland
Pride In Diversity
June 25 @ 8:00 pm – June 26 @ 2:30 am
BUTTON FACTORY Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
Pride Comedy Show
June 25 @ 8:30 pm
The International Bar 23 Wicklow Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Scissor Sisters – Mother Pride Opening Party
June 26 @ 6:00 pm
National Museum of Ireland – Collins Barracks Benburb Street, , Dublin, Select a State or Province:,, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7, Ireland
Neon Painting: Pride – Freddy Mercury
June 26 @ 6:30 pm
Pawnshop 15 Dame St, Dublin 2, Dublin 2, Ireland
Friday Night Live – Friday, 26th June with Juno Birch
June 26 @ 7:00 pm
The Laughter Lounge 4-8 Eden Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland
Queer Georgians: The Ladies of Llangollen
June 26 @ 7:30 pm
The Sugar Club 8 Leeson Street Lower, Saint Kevin’s, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland
Dyke Night
June 26 @ 8:00 pm – June 27 @ 3:00 am
Opium 26 Wexford Street, Dublin 2, Dublin 2, Ireland
EUPHORIA PRIDE 2026 – DJ FRAN ALBUQUERQUE
June 26 @ 11:00 pm – June 27 @ 3:00 am
Twenty Two Night Club 22 Anne Street South, Dublin 2, Ireland
Mother Pride Opening Party: AFTERDARK
June 26 @ 11:00 pm – June 27 @ 3:00 am
BUTTON FACTORY Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, Ireland
Pride Tour – GPO Museum
June 27 @ 10:30 am
GPO Museum Saturday Night Live – Saturday, 27th June with Juno Birch
Pride Pottery at Throwing Shapes
June 27 @ 11:00 am
Throwing Shapes Unit 2 – Block A, Mill Street,, Dublin 8, Ireland
Mother Pride Block Party 2026
June 27 @ 4:00 pm
National Museum of Ireland – Collins Barracks Benburb Street, , Dublin, Select a State or Province:,, Stoneybatter, Dublin 7, Ireland
Drink & Draw: Pride Rainbow (BYOB)
June 27 @ 6:00 pm
This Must Be The Place 42 Arran Quay, Dublin 7, Dublin 7, Ireland
Saturday Night Live – Saturday, 27th June with Juno Birch
June 27 @ 7:00 pm
The Laughter Lounge 4-8 Eden Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland
PROFILE PRIDE 26
June 27 @ 9:00 pm – June 28 @ 3:00 am
SevenNine Dublin 79 Grafton Street, Dublin 2, Dublin 2, Ireland
9 DJ’S, 7 DANCERS, 3 ROOMS, 1 FANTASTIC VENUE……. R U RE
KING: Mother Pride After Party
June 27 @ 11:00 pm – June 28 @ 3:00 am
Opium 26 Wexford Street, Dublin 2, Dublin 2, Ireland
Pride Service
June 28 @ 11:00 am
Dublin Unitarian Church 112 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Dublin 2, Ireland
Neon Painting: Pride Lady Gaga
June 28 @ 5:00 pm
Pawnshop 15 Dame St, Dublin 2, Dublin 2, Ireland
27 June 2026
Diversions /Service disruptions due to the Dublin Pride parade and festival:
a diversion will be in place for Route 73 from approximately 07:00-16:00.
Stops 1480, 2798 and 1502 will not be serviced.
Luas:
There will be no service on the Green Line between St Stephen’s Green and Dominick
from approximately 10:00-17:00.
Trams will only run between Brides Glen and St. Stephen’s Green, and between Broombridge and Dominick.
There will be no service on the Red Line between Smithfield and Connolly/The Point
from approximately 10:00-14:45.
Trams will only run between Tallaght/Saggart and Smithfield.
Road closures
(times are approximate):
08:00-16:00 – O’Connell Street, Cathal Brugha Street and Talbot Street
11:30-16:00 – O’Connell Bridge, Ormond Quay and Inns Quay
12:00-16:00 – Eden Quay, Custom House Quay (Junctions Memorial Road & Beresford Place), Marlborough Street (Junctions Abbey Street & Eden Quay), Beresford Place (Junctions Eden Quay & Abbey Street Lower), Rosie Hackett Bridge, Butt Bridge, Amiens Street (Junction of Five Lamps), Talbot Memorial Bridge, George’s Quay, Sir John Rogerson Quay, City Quay, Moss Street (Junction of Talbot Memorial Bridge), Shaw Street, Princes Street South, Peterson Court, Dowling’s Court, Lombard Court, Lombard Street East, Grand Canal Street Lower, Westland Row, Pearse Street (Junctions of Macken Street, Erne Street Upper & Sandwith Street Lower), Lincoln Place, Leinster Street South (Junction of Kildare Street) , Clare Street, Fenian Street, Cumberland Street South, Northumberland Road (Junction of Haddington Road)
11:30-22:00 – Merrion Square North (Junction of Holles Street)
06:00-22:00 – Merrion Street, Merrion Square West, Merrion Square East (To Junction of Mount Street Lower), Mount Street Upper (Junction of Herbert Street), Fitzwilliam Street Lower, Mount Street Cresent
Dublin LGBTQ Pride CLG intends to close the following road to facilitate Pride Parade Event the date and times listed below:
Location 1: from 08.00hrs to 16.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026
O’Connell Street Upper, O’Connell Street Lower and Cathal Brugha Street and Talbot Street, Dublin 1 from 08.00hrs to 16.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026.
Location 2: from 11.30hrs to 16.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026.
O’Connell Bridge, Ormond Quay Upper, Ormonde Quay Lower and Inns Quay, Dublin 1 from 11.30hrs to 16.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026.
Location 3: from 12.00hrs to 16.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026.
Eden Quay, Custom House Quay (Junctions Memorial Road & Beresford Place), Marlborough Street (Junctions Abbey Street & Eden Quay), Beresford Place (Junctions Eden Quay & Abbey Street Lower), Rosie Hackett Bridge, Butt Bridge, Amiens Street (Junction of Five Lamps), Talbot Memorial Bridge, George’s Quay, Sir John Rogerson Quay, City Quay, Moss Street (Junction of Talbot Memorial Bridge), Shaw Street, Princes Street South, Peterson Court, Dowling’s Court, Lombard Court, Lombard Street East, Grand Canal Street Lower, Westland Row, Pearse Street (Junctions of Macken Street, Erne Street Upper & Sandwith Street Lower), Lincoln Place, Leinster Street South (Junction of Kildare Street) , Clare Street, Fenian Street, Cumberland Street South, Northumberland Road (Junction of Haddington Road), Dublin 1 & 2 from 12.00hrs to 16.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026.
Location 4: from 11.30hrs to 22.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026.
Merrion Square North (Junctions of Holles Street), Dublin 2 from 11.30hrs to 22.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026.
Location 5: from 06.00hrs to 22.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026.
Merrion Street Lower, Merrion Street Upper, Merrion Square West, Merrion Square East (To Junction of Mount Street Lower), Mount Street Upper (Junction of Herbert Street), Fitzwilliam Street Lower, Mount Street Cresent, Dublin 2 from 06.00hrs to 22.00hrs on Saturday 27th June 2026.
Please note – to be confirmed for 2026 – these were the arrangements for 2025: the Luas Green and Red Line tram services may have service changes on Sat 27th Jun to accommodate the Dublin Pride Parade taking place in the city centre.
Green Line– service may be impacted between St. Stephen’s Green and Dominick from 9:40 AM to 5 PM.
Red Line– service may be impacted between Smithfield and Connolly/The Point from approx. 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM.
Bus Éireann provides great links to Dublin city from all over the country.
Check your timetable and routes close to the event date, as there are diversions planned in Dublin city centre due to the parade and march on June 27th.
Routes and bus stop locations may change in the city centre on Sat 27th Jun to accommodate the Dublin Pride Parade taking place.
Irish Rail provide great links to Dublin city from all over the country.
And there are great Bus and LUAS links from both Heuston and Connolly train stations.
