Dun Laoghaire hope to replace scrapped festival

Organisers of the Dun Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures have said they hope to replace it with a smaller, more manageable and cost-effective event.

The popular summer festival has been scrapped after it emerged that it ran over budget in 2010 by almost €570,000.

The chairperson of Dun Laoghaire County Council, Lettie McCarthy, said the ten-year event had grown too big to cope with in terms of funding security and high-profile performers.

But she added that the council is keen to organise a similar event to celebrate diversity, but on a smaller scale.