About
A live guide to Belfast Fleadh week.
What's on. What's busy. Where to go next. Built by Lavery's, Belfast's oldest family-owned bar — for visitors, by people who actually go out in this city.
What this is
The Belfast Fleadh Guide pulls together everything you need to navigate Fleadh week in one place — sessions, bars, food, late-night spots, and the part nobody else shows you: how busy each venue is, in real time. Venues update their own status. Visitors back it up with quick crowd reports. Nothing's older than a few minutes.
Free for anyone to use, no app store install needed. Save it to your home screen and it works like one.
Built by Lavery's of Belfast.
The Belfast Fleadh Guide is developed and maintained by Lavery's, Belfast's oldest family-owned bar. It lists every venue running something during Fleadh week — not just ours. The map and timeline are city-wide and venue-neutral.
This is not the official Fleadh Cheoil app and we're not affiliated with Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann. For official festival information, programmes and competitions, please visit the Fleadh's own channels.
How it works
Venues update
Bars, pubs and food spots update their live status — quiet, good buzz, rammed, queue outside — in two taps.
You report
See something different on the ground? Tap a quick crowd report and the next visitor sees it instantly.
The map stays honest
Stale data expires automatically. If a venue hasn't updated in a while, the badge says so. No bluffing.
For Belfast operators
Get on the map. Free for Fleadh week.
If you run a bar, restaurant, kitchen, late-night venue or session in Belfast, claim your spot on the Belfast Fleadh Guide. You'll get a public page, live status controls, and the ability to publish your Fleadh programme. It takes about a minute to sign up. No card, no contract.
- One public page with photos, hours, food info and a live status badge.
- One-tap status updates from your phone all night.
- Publish events to the city-wide What's On feed.
- Per-venue chat thread for the questions you'd otherwise answer at the door.
- See every crowd report your venue gets, live.
For visitors
Fleadh runs 2–9 August 2026. Use the map to find what's on near you, save the venues you want to hit, and when somewhere's rammed, jump to the closest place with space.
Trust & safety
- All venues are manually approved. No anonymous listings.
- Status updates expire if they aren't refreshed — stale badges flip to "unknown" rather than misleading anyone.
- Chat is moderated. Three reports auto-hide a message; an admin reviews everything flagged.
- We don't sell your data. We use lightweight, privacy-first analytics to know which venues people are looking at — no advertising trackers.
Get in touch
Press, partnerships, bug reports, "you got us wrong" emails — all welcome.