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Redheads Everywhere Descend On Festival Specifically For Gingers

Redheads Everywhere Descend On Festival Specifically For Gingers

Gingers everywhere.

Hamish Kilburn

Hamish Kilburn

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I have to say, if there were a planned festival dedicated specifically for blondes or brunettes it would be shut down before the hair dye even managed to sink in.

So I don't really see why it is necessary to hold a festival dedicated to gingers. Despite my objections, there is one and it's pretty fucking popular.


Image credit: PA

The Irish Redhead Convention is held in Crosshaven in Cork. More than 1,000 people arrived for this year's festivities to celebrate their ginger hair.

The event, which originally started as a joke by two siblings, is now a major event with 50 volunteers helping to keep everything under control - could you image thousands of angry redheads coming at you?

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Organiser Joleen Cronin, who is said to have come up with the idea in the pub with her brother, described the weekend as an 'empowering and life-changing experience'.

"For once we are the majority in the crowd and to be a part of that is an incredible, fun, empowering and life-changing experience," she said.

The festival, which ran from August 19 to 21, included ginger speed dating and a carrot tossing championship.

This year, there were also prizes up for grabs for the person who had the best ginger beard.

Words: Hamish Kilburn

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