Details of this year's St Patrick's Festival has been announced, with organisers promising it will be best yet.

The five-day St Patrick's Festival in Dublin officially kicks off later with the annual open air céilí.

The six-day St Patrick's Festival kicks off in Dublin later today.

The St Patrick's Festival was officially launched in Dublin today.

Dublin’s St Patrick’s Festival kicks off today with a fun-filled five-day line up.

This year's St Patrick's Day fireworks display is due to take place at the Rock of Cashel in Co Tipperary.

Local festivals generated €300m for the Irish economy this year, it emerged today.

The Saint Patrick's festival 'Skyfest' fireworks display in Dublin city centre tonight has been cancelled.

GOLDEN girl Derval O’Rourke got a warm reception from thousands of people who braved wet and near-Arctic conditions to watch Cork’s St Patrick’s Day parade yesterday.

Hundreds of thousands of people will gather along the quays for Europe's largest fireworks display which begins at 8pm this evening.

THE weather may have been grey and dull in Cork yesterday but the city’s reinvigorated St Patrick’s Day parade brought an explosion of colour onto the streets.

The St Patrick’s Festival in Dublin will be bigger and better than ever to celebrate its 10-year anniversary, organisers promised tonight.

GARDAÍ are targeting speeding motorists over the St Patrick's festival in an attempt to halt road carnage which has claimed 81 lives so far this year an increase of 25 deaths on 2003, according to the National Safety Council (NSC).

Thousands of people were celebrating the feast of St Patrick in Dublin today as an action-packed festival got under way.

Traders selling shamrock on the streets during St Patrick’s Day celebrations had an unexpected rival this year – in the form of a French market.

Almost 500,000 people have begun to gather in Dublin's city centre ahead of tonight's Skyfest fireworks display to mark the St Patrick's festival.

Green Party leader Trevor Sargent has said he supports the call for people to wear white ribbons in opposition to war on St Patrick's Day.

JUST like Christmas, Paddy’s Day seems to be arriving earlier and earlier every year.

Final preparations are underway ahead of this year's St Patrick's festival, which gets underway tonight.

St Patrick's Day returns to Dublin this weekend for the second time in as many months.

The National Safety Council has appealed to motorists not to drink and drive over the St Patrick's Festival weekend in Dublin.