T.V. Honan, Director of Wateford Sproai, said the plan is also to have a series of outdoor performances which will be spread out over the month of August across the county. It emerged this week that Waterford Spraoi was awarded a grant of €385,000 by the Arts Council, which announced its new key strategic funding round. Mr Honan said the initial plan had been to launch the ‘prism’ spectacle in March, but Level 5 restrictions meant it was deferred. Covid-19 continues to disrupt the arts sector, he pointed out. He said normally Spraoi would be performing in St Patrick’s Day parades in Dublin, Cork and Waterford, and in recent years have done Limerick and Kilkenny as well.