Chinese New Year celebrations are underway in Dublin as people have come together to celebrate the year of the Monkey.
This year marks the ninth year that the festival has been celebrated in Dublin.
This year’s fair celebrating the occasion will combine the joys of music, food, film and crafts. The Chinese New Year Festival will continue for two weeks at the CHQ building in the city centre.
Sandra Rodriguez is head of the events programme and released this statement about the festival, promising it to be a fantastic and unique experience for all the family:
“We have a Tai Chi demonstration and a class, then we have a clay making workshop.
“They will be teaching children how to make monkey figures, because it is the year of the monkey and also we have an artist coming from Beijing, he does sugar paintings with hot sugar.”