The month of May is busting out with flowers. In Ireland, the month of May is busting out with festivals as well.
Festivals feature guided walking tours, spectacular flower gardens, golf, arts, and comedy.
A small sample includes the Adare May Fair, the Dundalk International Maytime Festival, the Irish round of the Motor Cycle Union of Ireland European Championship, the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival, and the County Wicklow Gardens Festival. The variety of celebrations cater to a wide range of interests. Yet this is the time of year when one beautiful little town takes the spotlight with a very large and unique festival, Murphys Bantry Mussel Fair. Bantry, located in County Cork, overlooks one of the deepest harbors in the world. During the last cycle of hard economic times in the early 80s, the business community looked to Bantry Bay s most abundant resource for relief - the mussel.