Get Ready Dublin AM Rotary

Click here  to see hundreds of fun photos from our Flikr page of the event, with thanks to Mohan ViddamRoberta Kayne, Sharon Kendall.
 
See more photos and lots of social media blasts here. Central Ohio loves the Blarney Bash!
 
Watch fun D-TV video coverage of the Bash and St Patrick's Day 2015 here. 2 minutes of rollicking times!
 
Message from Julie Erwin-Rinaldi, Club President:
 
The BASH came back big time!  Thank you to the planning committee headed by Wolf Lant and his many Rotary partners!  Thanks also to everyone that volunteered.  Many of you worked countless hours to make this event a success! You brought Rotary and our mission to countless individuals and families who now know the important work that we do and that we like having fun! Dublin should be proud of what was accomplished yesterday! 
 
Way to go!!! With great gratitude to all!
 
Message from Wolf Lant, Incoming President and Blarney Bash Committee Chair:
 
Thanks to everyone in the club for helping out on our first Blarney Bash event this year!  It was very successful, despite the rain before the event and even though many people in Dublin were already on their spring break.  Everyone who volunteered chipped in to ensure the event was successful and, despite a few minor glitches during the day, the response was overwhelmingly positive from both the crowds and the performers.  We got many words of thanks for bringing back the Bash! 
 
I'd like to especially recognize the entire Blarney Bash committee who spent countless hours over the past year pulling all the details together to make this event the success that it was.  All the committee heads did a great job making sure their parts of the project were well covered and it all came together by Saturday morning so that we were ready when the first crowds from the parade followed the bag pipe player to the event grounds.  The tent was better than half full by 12:30 and increased from there until late in the evening when the last band hit the stage!
 
The volunteers worked multiple shifts to make sure all areas were covered, and people shifted around to cover all the areas that needed extra help so that any lines that built up were quickly serviced.  Some of the volunteers who worked on Thursday and Friday to help us set up, also started at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and stayed until 1:00 a.m. on Sunday morning to help clean up and tear down the site, and were right back at it by 9:00 a.m. on Sunday to help sweep the tent and clean up the surrounding grounds.  I'm very honored to be a part of such an incredibly dedicated group of Rotarians who worked so hard to make sure this inaugural event was a complete success for our community.
 
I spoke to the Dublin police, the County Sheriff, the Washington Township EMS and Fire inspectors during the event and they all were very complimentary as to how well run our first event was.  I think we can all be very proud of the job we did to bring this event back to the Dublin community and raise money for the charities we support!  
 
We will be scheduling a wrap up meeting very soon to go over what was done well and what we can do better next year to make this event even more successful.  If you all can send me an email letting me know your opinions of what was great about the event and what could be improved next time, I'd really appreciate it!  We will use these comments at our wrap up meeting to help our planning for this event next year and we will communicate back to the club as soon as we have a final accounting of the financial aspect of the event.
 
Thank you all again for your incredible support of this project and an extra thank you to those of you who financially sponsored this event too.  I'm humbled and honored to part of such a dedicated and hard working organization, and on behalf of all the people who worked on this event, we look forward to seeing this event grow and raise even more funds for the charities that we support.
 
Wolf Lant