The main challenge was in designing a pageant that could accommodate 140 performers from a range of disciplines, all of whom would be able to turn up and perform with little experience or rehearsal, live to hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of Dublin. The pageant piece had three sections: Past, Present, Future; Beginning, Middle, End; Birds, Fish, Rockets. The unifying element was water, with 80 human droplets flowing through the city from the Black Church to Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. A river was created that would cover the street and create elements that could be seen by small children, by people at the back of a crowd, from buildings above and on television. At the edges there were crowd interactions with soft fish birds and rockets swooping over the crowd and small samples of the fish birds and rockets handed out to children.