St Patrick’s Day gets bigger and better every year, as more than 100 million people around the world celebrate our national holiday with the Irish diaspora.

This year, even more iconic sites and monuments were illuminated in green.

Over 15 new sites joined the old favourites among them the One World Trade Centre in New York, The City Hall in London, the fountains on Gran Via in Barcelona, Matsue Castle in Japan, The Diamond Bridge in Korea, even a Rhino Station in Nairobi National Park and most fun of all the famous red carpet in Cannes became the ‘green carpet’ – what a coup for Tourism Ireland.