Music festival set for holiday success

WITH up to 20,000 visitors expected to throng Dungarvan this coming May Bank Holiday weekend for what is now one of the country’s foremost traditional music festivals, the local economy is set to benefit to the tune of more than €2 million.

The twelfth annual Guinness Féile na nDéise will be launched this evening in Dungarvan courthouse by legendary GAA match commentator Micheal Ó Muircheartaigh, and with the most varied and exciting ever programme of events in place the town is all set for the most memorable of weekends.

Many months of time-consuming effort have been ploughed into the organising of the festival with as many as two hundred people involved.