Redhead festival ‘could be next Rose of Tralee’

The country’s largest festival of foxiness could become as important to Irish tourism as the Rose of Tralee, organisers of the popular ginger gathering believe.

As the clean-up after the fifth Irish Redhead Convention continued in Crosshaven, Co Cork, yesterday, festival bosses said it is now vital the right people get behind the event.

“The event is well and truly on the international map now,” convention founder Joleen Cronin said.