Roll the dice for Ireland’s first board game festival

Settlers of Catan; Stone Age; or King of Tokyo — just some of the more unusual games set to feature in what’s being billed as Ireland’s first-ever Festival of Board Games.

Organisers are feverishly planning three days of tournaments, workshops and have-a-go sessions which will feature just about every board game you’ve ever heard of — and then some.

The board game extravaganza will take place in more than 18 venues in the West Cork town of Clonakilty and will feature everything from backgammon, to chess, chess as gaeilge, Monopoly, Scrabble and Where’s Wally.