Feel the Force festival invites heroes and villains to West Cork

Stormtrooper Seán McGrath checks a motorist details at a checkpoint last year. This year's Feel the Force festival begins on May 31. Picture: David Creedon

Visitors to a West Cork town might be forgiven for thinking they have stumbled onto a film set as preparations on an epic scale get underway for a Star Wars extravaganza.

A year on from the inaugural 'Feel the Force' festival, Caroline Walsh and her husband Nuri Albakri are preparing to once again transform Dunmanway into a galaxy not too far, far away for fans young and old.