Jul 30, 2025 | News
The Ballybunion Bean Festival promises to be one of the highlights of summer 2025. This brand new, unique festival focuses on the potential of beans as the most fun and climate friendly food for the future.
The Ballybunion Bean Festival was born out of Brilliant Ballybunion, a Creative Climate Action Initiative, supported by Creative Ireland. While growing food, nurturing nature, and creating art together, the Brilliant Ballybunion team began to imagine a new future for local food production and community resilience in the face of the climate and biodiversity crises.
The future is beans! Beans are an amazing source of protein, perfect for a plant based or a climatarian diet. Beans fix nitrogen in the soil and help local ecosystems to thrive. Beans also provide an opportunity for a new model of food production – from home and community gardens to small and big farmers alike. Growing beans can happen at any scale.
The Ballybunion Bean Festival is a blueprint for what is possible – by bringing together local artists, collaborators, chefs, and businesses, it demonstrates how community action can be intentional, meaningful, and fun!!
For the last few months, the community has been growing beans for a feast, which will be followed by a concert with Sailhym. The Festival will take place within the beautiful woodlands, gardens and organic meadows of The Barna Way.
Come join this truly slow food feast. This brand new festival will be gas craic, full of beans and other corny puns.
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May 2, 2025 | Events, News
BOOKED OUT
Music for the early birds!
Enjoy the wonder of the dawn chorus at The Barna Way as part of the Ballybunion MOYA festival.
Wonderful to see so many people booked in to witness the magic of the waking woodland with Sean Cullhane and Rena Blake
Did you know that the birds with the biggest eyes sing first. How beautiful is that!
Don’t forget to bring walking shoes and dress for the weather.
May 1, 2025 | Events, News
We are full of BEANS and are so excited to invite you to the launch of the Ballybunion BEAN Festival at 7pm on Sat, 3rd May, outside Coast Cafe.
Whether you have BEAN gardening for years or are a total newBEAN, we have the BEAN for you!
Come plant your own organic baby BEANS and get your official signed BEAN certificate!
Enjoy Music by Sailhym, BEAN treats by Lily Toomey and interactive artwork with artist Lisa Fingleton.
To help make this event as greenBEAN as possible, you are welcome to bring recycled containers or loo roll holders for your BEANS.
Save the date 15-16th August for the Ballybunion Bean Festival
May all your BEANS come true this Ballybunion MOYA weekend!
See you Saturday
BEAN team
Apr 30, 2025 | News
Here’s the clip of Brilliant Ballybunion’s appearance from Wednesday, 16th April on RTE’s Home Grown for Brilliant Ballybunion and The Barna Way.
Mar 10, 2025 | Events, News
The Ballybunion Bean Festival promises to be one of the highlights of summer 2025. Don’t miss the Bean Bake Off on the beach and explore the potential of beans as the most fun and climate friendly food for the future.
The community will spend months nurturing these precious beans. Come join this truly slow food feast.
This brand new festival will be gas craic, full of beans and other corny puns.
Mar 9, 2025 | Events, News
Calling all nature enthusiasts – A new community group is forming in Ballybunion for anyone interested in Nature. We live surrounded by a unique and special coastline where we have many important species of plants and animals. One of those species is the ringed plover, a small ground nesting wader that breeds along our coastline. A kick-off meeting will be held in Coast cafe on Friday 21st March at 7pm with plans on how the group will start to follow these little birds breeding season and document their success rates locally as well as identify ways we can help them.
Come along and get involved and let’s identify exciting ways we can get out in nature while contributing to the conservation of the special habitats we have surrounding us.
