The festival season in Ireland is about to take some wonderfully weird turns -- including celebrations of redheads and insomniacs on the links – thanks in part to a governmental initiative called The Gathering that is helping to support as many as 5,000 celebrations, some very little and some very odd. The whole year-long extravaganza has to be one of the more innovative attempts anywhere to pump up tourist traffic and a little nation’s identity on the world stage.
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