Dingle Food Festival conjures sunshine as Munster businesses bag Blas na hÉireann awards

A multiplicity of delicious food options saw the entire town packed from the highest hill right down to the harbour

Food Producers from all over the island of Ireland gather for the annual group photograph ahead of the Blas na h-Eireann Awards in Dingle County Kerry on Friday. Picture: Don MacMonagle

Once again, the Dingle Food Festival managed the impossible and conjured up several blissful hours of sunshine on Sunday following a weekend that had arrived festooned in orange weather warnings and with a promise of biblical deluges.

Having threatened to wash away entirely the street food stalls and traders on the Taste Trail that snaked through the entire town, there was rain aplenty on the Saturday morning but that didn’t deter the doughty diners bearing reusable bamboo bowls and keep cups for coffees.