Culture vultures descend on towns for event

OVER half a million people last night attended galleries, museums and cultural spaces around the country for Ireland’s biggest ever Culture Night.

The fifth year of the annual event saw it expand to 20 towns, cities, counties and islands across Ireland, reaching as far as the islands of Tory and Inis Meáin and marking the first time that Gaeltacht regions have been included.

Having began as a small scale cultural event in 2005 in the Temple Bar area of Dublin, it has now become an All-Ireland event. This year’s event saw cultural activities in Galway, Cork, Limerick and Waterford, participating as well as many more in towns and villages nationwide.