New Year’s celebrations across the world ushered in 2017 with dazzling fireworks displays and crowded streets amid tightened security measures for the festivities.

Dubai shattered the world record for the largest ever pyrotechnic display on New Year’s Eve with a show involving more than half a million fireworks, Guinness World Records said yesterday.

Officials in New York City have gathered good luck charms to accompany the unlucky number 13 that will light up when the New Year’s Eve ball drops in Times Square.

HIGH noon came yesterday when Dublin’s landmark Burlington Hotel closed its doors.

A new breed of holiday for those with lavish whims and large wallets has been launched by special-trip company Voyana.