The River Liffey will be dyed green for next year's St Patrick's day celebrations.
The move will mirror the celebrations in Chicago, where each year the waterways are dyed in the native colour of the Emerald Isle.
Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, confirmed to the Irish Examiner that there are currently efforts underway to turn Dublin's north and south dividing river green, with help from city plumbing authorities in Chicago.
Gibbons said that while local city council authorities here will need to be consulted, there is a desire at a tourism and political level to dye the Liffey for the event.
Senator Billy Lawless, a Chicago businessman, is managing the plan and has been in contact with Chicago's plumbing union, the body which annually adds the harmless dye to the Illinois river:
He said: “The Plumbers Union has been greening the Chicago River for many years. It is environmentally safe. They would be delighted to do a once-off greening of Liffey next St Patrick’s Day.
Many places across the globe go green for the annual celebrations, in 2018 alone nearly 470 sites in 55 countries went green. This included the greening of the world’s tallest building for the first time at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, as well as the Victoria Falls in Zambia.
