Mayo village readies to host Rory McIlroy's wedding

Excitement is building in the Mayo village of Cong as it braces for the wedding of the year when Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll tie the knot at Ashford Castle next weekend.

The south Mayo village is accustomed to being in the public eye, going back to 1952 when The Quiet Man, starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara, was filmed there.

Pierce Brosnan married Keely Shaye Smith there in 2001. Two years later the spotlight was again on Ashford Castle when Westlife’s Shane Filan married childhood sweetheart Gillian Walsh.