Street Performance World Championships

The Street Performance World Championships held in Dublin’s Merrion Square at the weekend. The weather held and plenty of people turned out to see the various street performers that ranged from jugglers to sword swallowers.

AJ James was quite the entertainer with a good routine that involved plenty of humour and this part involved him juggling swords while balanced on a section of pipe.

And what better location for the festival, which attracts 240,000 visitors, than one of the finest public parks in Ireland? Merrion Square is one of my personal favourites and has plenty of interest year round for the photographer. From statues, specimen trees and flowers to the fine Georgian houses that line the park it is possible to spend at least an hour here, camera in hand, before heading off to the pub or on to another location.