Cork City’s St Patrick’s Day parade was colourful in more ways than one, with every race represented as hundreds of non-nationals mingled with locals to join the celebration.

Last weekend’s Irish Redhead Convention in Crosshaven, Co Cork, was a celebration of all things red and hairy, from amazing afros to bristly beards.

Gingerism is the last socially acceptable form of discrimination, according to the author of a new book exploring the history of red-headedness.

It’s the country’s most internationally renowned celebration, and everybody knows it. All across the world, people with itchy feet are making bucket lists — Brazil for Carnivale, India for Holi, and Ireland for St Patrick’s Day.

The country’s largest festival of foxiness could become as important to Irish tourism as the Rose of Tralee, organisers of the popular ginger gathering believe.

From redheads to wet heads — the main organisers of Ireland’s biggest festival of foxiness got in on the ice bucket craze sweeping the nation yesterday.

Redheads are more likely to be bullied because of their hair colour with so-called gingerism still considered the last, socially accepted form of prejudice, new Irish research has found.

Britain’s redheaded Prince Harry has been invited to join hundreds of fellow ginger nuts in Cork next week at a fun-filled festival.

A flame-haired Kiwi whose community fundraised for her airfare to attend Ireland’s biggest festival of foxiness has set her sights on the ‘Queen of the Redheads’ title.

Up to 2,000 redheads are expected to descend on the Co Cork village of Crosshaven this weekend for the Irish Redhead Convention.

IN June, 2007, then 41-year-old Sarah Primmer, from Plymouth, in England, was awarded £18,000 in compensation for having been bullied at work. The former kebab shop employee had been taunted about her red hair and its perceived, inherent sexual characteristics.

More than 100 redheads have taken part in the UK’s first Ginger Pride march.

It seems that news of the demise of ginger people has been greatly exaggerated, as a “shadow army” of carriers of the gene exists across Europe.

More than 100 redheads have taken part in the UK’s first Ginger Pride march.

A biscuit-baking world-record has crumbled — thanks to a team of bakers.

They've just broken a world record down in Co Cork for the biggest amount of cookies to be baked in an hour.

Redheads have set their sights on smashing a biscuit-baking world record to prove they’re ginger nuts.

So did you know that Zorro was Irish?

Nice wan, like — the People’s Republic of Cork is getting its own “rebel passport” to mark the Gathering.