Hundreds of thousands of people gathered around the county at parades celebrating St Patrick’s Day today and our voideographers were maonth them. Check out some of the sights and sounds they captured on their travels.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s controversial St Patrick’s Day meeting with US president Donald Trump will take place during an expanded trade mission, writes political correspondent Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

A Limerick man who fired a shotgun to protect his family from a group who had been out celebrating St Patrick’s Day was yesterday found not guilty of the illegal discharge of a firearm and causing criminal damage to a car owned by the people he felt under threat from.

Donal Riordan was the big winner of the International Fund series played at eight venues over three days starting on St Patrick’s Day. He beat Michael Bohane by two bowls at the Marsh Road on Sunday.

An Irish-speaking leprechaun features in an unusual advertisement for car-marker Volkswagen published to coincide with St Patrick’s Day.

TOMORROW we will celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Most of us will do so with enthusiasm. 

The Anglo-Norman or Geraldine roots of Tralee founded 800 years ago will be celebrated in a year-long series of events, beginning on St Patrick’s Day.

Senior management from Cork Airport and the DAA are set to mount an all-out diplomatic offensive on Washington and Boston ahead of the St Patrick’s Day festivities in a bid to secure Cork’s first transatlantic flights.

A man has been jailed for three years for swinging a golf club into the chest of another male outside his home in the early hours after St Patrick’s Day.

Brian Cowen attended a private Anglo Irish function a month after the St Patrick’s Day 2008 Irish stock exchange crisis and a fortnight before becoming taoiseach, but insisted he was never lobbied for a bank guarantee.

THERE was something of a sting in the tail of the jovial celebrations at the White House on St Patrick’s Day when President Obama indicated to the Taoiseach his concern that Islamic extremists may be using Ireland as a staging post to enter the United States in order to launch terrorist attacks there.

As she prepares to announce a likely bid for the US presidency, Hillary Clinton has accepted an invitation to attend an Irish event in New York to mark St Patrick’s Day in what is seen as a major coup for the Irish lobby.

Two teenage boys, who admitted taking part in a vicious attack on a Brazilian student in Dublin city centre on St Patrick’s Day, have been given a chance to avoid having criminal records.