The Phoenix Park Biodiversity Festival & Honey Show will take place at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre (D08 Y304) from 10am to 4pm on Saturday 5th September 2026. From Bees to Trees, there’s something for all the family at the 10th annual Biodiversity Festival and Honey Show. There will be a range of biodiversity-themed Talks and Walks taking place around the Visitor Centre. Face painters will be onsite from 11am to 4pm to turn your little Princes into a frog, and Princesses into a butterfly for the day. Tours of the beautifully restored Victorian Walled Garden will also take pla

This year’s Three Bridges Rally will take place on Saturday 5 September. We’ll muster at Poolbeg Marina before parading up and down the Liffey at 14:30. We’ll spend the night rafted on the Liffey Pontoon beside the 3Arena. In the morning we’ll leave with the St Bridget at 11:00. The Lord Mayor of Dublin will be leading the parade aboard a motor yacht, and will address participants and the press afterwards. Our host ashore will be the Clayton Hotel, where we have the use of a new function room for the evening. Dinner will be followed by some presentations and informal entertainmen

South Dublin County Council invites the public to enjoy two free outdoor opera performances this September as part of a new cultural initiative bringing live opera to some of the county's most scenic parkland settings. "Opera in the Park" will see two professionally staged performances take place in South Dublin's public parks, offering residents and visitors an opportunity to experience opera in a relaxed outdoor environment. The programme opens with a Verdi Gala in Rathfarnham Castle Park on Sunday, 6 September, followed by a performance of Hansel and Gretel in Tymon Park on Sunday, 13