Hardy annuals make beeline to sample Park life

Ireland’s great festival of scents, colours, and flavours was officially opened by President Michael D Higgins yesterday.

Lots of hardy annuals who attended the opening day of Bloom 2015 in Dublin’s Phoenix Park had to duck out of the odd shower of rain but, unusually, nobody complained about the weather.

The President and his wife Sabina did not have to travel far — Bloom is held beside Áras an Uachtaráin.