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In fact, the number of foreign flags in interface areas has taken on mardi gras proportions.

All day a sunny Cardiff was like Rio during carnival; New Orleans during mardi gras; Stradbally during the Electric Picnic.

The area around Temple Bar will become a kind of mardi gras location and there will be fireworks in the sky.

February to May is peak season thanks to sunny days, temperate weather and big events such as mardi gras and Jazz Fest.

The couple lived in Australia in 2008 and marched in the Sydney mardi gras with Kings Cross religious organisation the Wayside Chapel.

It is just one of the warnings to thousands of students taking part in O-week activities that range from campus tours to mardi gras.

Then there's the mardi gras Indians regaled in the most fabulous feathered headdress who march through Treme to the beat of their own rhythm.

Its place is in history books and in rich mardi gras material: not in the realpolitik would of the European (less Bosnia) community.

LIMERICK'S MARKET Quarter will echo with music and enjoy a carnival atmosphere when the city's newest downtown area hosts a spectacular mardi gras street party.

An estimated 40,000 people attended the mardi gras in Ballina last Saturday night as part of the local Street and Art Week Festival.

Like New Orleans, Mobile Mardi Gras celebrations continued along racially divided lines.

It's like a mix of Mardi Gras and New Years Time Square.

Numbers do not tell the full story of Mardi Gras, locals say.

He married Margaret Templeton, a New Orleans socialite and Mardi Gras Queen.

New Orleans, home of the Mardi Gras, of little lives, unknown names.