Organisers of the Wexford Maritime Festival have following a groundswell of public support, have opted against cancelling this year’s event, in favour of postponing for a couple of months.

Originally slated to take place on Wexford’s quayfront on 2-3 July, those behind the festival took to social media to announce that the 2022 event had been cancelled due to spiralling costs. This led to an outpouring of disappointment and support and just a few hours later, the organisers were back online to inform the Wexford public that the festival would in fact be going ahead this year, albeit at the later date of 3-4 September.

"I suppose we kind of ran out of time to get things sorted and to source funding and get our insurance etc in place for the initial date,” Festival Director Lorraine Galvin explained.

“It was difficult to get things back up and running again after a couple of years without the festival due to Covid. It looked like we weren’t going to be able to have a festival this year, but we got such a huge positive reaction from people that we decided we’d go ahead with the September dates, which actually coincide with National Services weekend.

As the Wexford People reports more on the festival that is to go ahead in over two month's time.