NEWLY-CROWNED Redhead King and Queen, Alan Reidy and Gráinne Keenan were all smailes as they posed with a crowd full of red heads at the annual Irish Redhead Convention.
The festival celebrates everything to do with red hair and was held in the village of Crosshaven in Co. Cork at the weekend.
Some of the events included the coronation of the Redhead King and Queen, carrot-tossing, ginger speed-dating, best red beard, best red dog, freckle counting and a redhead parade.
Redhead Convention founder, Joleen Cronin with her VIG (very important ginger) rosetteThe Convention began as a friendly joke between redheaded siblings Joleen and Denis Cronin but also serves as a fundraiser for the Irish Cancer Society - raising awareness about skin cancer and melanoma.
Red hair is the rarest of hair colours and accounts for just 0.6 per cent of the global population.
Ireland has the second highest per capita population of redheads at 10 per cent, next only to Scotland at 13 per cent.
The United States is believed to have less than two per cent of redheads.
Check out our gallery of gorgeous redheads who gathered in Cork...
