Bank holiday weekend: Poets, ports and pride parades

Cork Pride takes to the streets, and honours its heroes, in what should be among one of the great bank holiday spectacles of the weekend.

Poets from all over the world, meanwhile, gather in Fermoy, while Kinsale, and Union Hall come alive with charity swims and annual regattas. Cyclists are preparing for a leisurely charity ride along the Cork-Kerry border and it’s festival time in the Kingdom.

Organisers of the Pride weekend plan a Family Fair Day in Fitzgerald Park with novelty events, such as high heel dash, lipstick relay, handbag discus and others.