Mayor of the City of Galway, Cllr Mike Cubbard, has been given a warm welcome in Seattle, Washington, as part of their celebrations to mark St Patrick's Day and forty years of the Galway-Seattle Sister City relationship.
This year's celebrations in Seattle also mark four decades of positive political, cultural, educational and economic exchange between the two cities. Galway and Seattle formalised their Sister Cities connection in 1986.
As part of the visit, the Galway City Council delegation joined a ceremony at Pier 69 to raise the Irish and American flags in honour of St. Patrick's Day.
Mayor Cubbard also participated in the Irish Heritage Club of Seattle's 'Laying of the Green Stripe', where a vibrant green stripe of paint is laid to mark the route of the Seattle St Patrick's Day Parade.
