Cork Pride Festival hope to get people out — in every sense

The head of one of the country’s largest gay pride festivals hopes that events across Cork this week will give people the strength to come out.

Cork LGBT Pride Festival chairman Clive Davis was speaking in City Hall last night at the official launch of one of the city’s largest festivals, worth an estimated €500,000 to the local economy.

Thousands of people from all over Ireland are expected to attend events as part of this year’s festival, which will culminate in its first family fun-day in Fitzgerald’s Park on Saturday, and a parade of more than 3,000 people through the city centre on Sunday.