Wild rogues tempt city slickers to culchie fest

Slick latte-drinking office workers came face-to-face with pigs and hay outside their offices yesterday as culchies came to the city — looking for women.

The wild rural rogues took over the normally sophisticated surrounds of the Lapp’s Quay boardwalk in Cork, to encourage people, aged 21 to 91, to sign up for this year’s All Ireland Culchie Festival which will be hosted in the Rebel county later this year.

But festival organiser Paddy Rock issued a special invitation to female culchies to take part in the tongue-in-cheek event after the once male-dominated festival opened its doors to women for the first time last year.