Northern lights: Cork gets to see spectacular aurora borealis

Residents snapped pictures of the beautiful green and red aurora in the sky this evening

The northern lights snapped by a resident in Cobh, Co Cork, on Monday night.

Residents in East Cork and beyond were looking to the skies this evening and were treated to the rare sight of the northern lights which filled the sky with a beautiful green and red aura.

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are the results of "collisions between gas particles in our atmosphere and charged particles ejected from the Sun’s atmosphere", according to Met Éireann.