VIDEO AND PICTURES: Skibbereen Arts Festival

Video and Pictures by Denis Scannell

Family fun, music, literature, exhibitions and a spectacular torchlit parade, to mark the opening of the Skibbereen Arts Festival, Co. Cork.

Main Street transformed into a 19th century town for the opening of the Skibbereen Arts Festival.

Hugh O'Driscoll, Alan O'Donovan and Jack Monks enjoying the festivities.

Enjoying the fun at the opening.

The torchlit parade to mark the centenary of the death of O'Donovan Rossa.

Declan McCarthy as O'Donovan Rossa, leads the torchlit parade

Updated to 27th