In pictures: Cork Midsummer Festival launches 2024 programme

Cork's arts community gathered at the River Lee Hotel for the programme launch for the June event 

Susan Holland, Rose-Anne Kidney, Conall O'Riain, Lorraine Maye, director and Allyson O'Sullivan at the launch of the Cork Midsummer Festival at the River Lee Hotel. Pictures: Eddie O'Hare

Out and about at the Cork Midsummer Festival launch

Laurie Uprichatrd and Andrea Stapleton from Dance Cork. Pictures: Eddie O'Hare

Mary McCarthy, Scott Hayes and Emer Casey

Will Flanagan and Dee Tierney

Fiona Connolly and Yvonne Barry, both Bus Eireann and Suisan Holland, Midsummer Festival

Mark Hassey and Steven O'Neill

Tina Quinn and Anne Marie O'Sullivan both AM O'Sullivan PR and Jonathan Healy, board director

Ruairi O'Connor, board and Mary McCarthy, Crawford Art Gallery chairman

Lisa Sweeney and Sandra Carey, both Irish Examiner Media partners; Rose-Anne Kidney, Conall O'Riain, Lorraine Maye, director; Allyson O'Sullivan and Susan Holland