Festival review: Towers and Tales

Des O’Driscoll reviews story festival Towers and Tales in Lismore, Co Waterford.

Given that Towers and Tales was largely sold out weeks in advance, and that it featured such names as Michael Morpurgo and Ryan Tubridy, it’s probably a moot point to suggest this gathering in Lismore is one of the Irish festival circuit’s best kept secrets.

But what an event. A superb setting and a selection of impressive speakers collide with flocks of enthusiastic, irreverent children in a day-long celebration of all things story-related.