WELCOME to intergalactic Dunmanway, hometown of Sam Maguire and now home to The Feel the Force festival, a weekend of Star Wars themed activities, workshops and cosplay and a whole lot of fun. 

We would like to thank everyone for supporting Feel The Force Dunmanway, 2025. This year’s theme was Feel the Force V Super Heroes and Villains.  It was great to build on the success of last year’s festival. 

A small group organised this event but on the two festival days,  we had some amazing volunteers that made it all come together and we would like to thank them so much.

Thank you to the Malaysian Ambassador to Ireland, Wan Aznain-izam Yusri Wan Abdul Rashid, for opening our festival and for taking the time out on Sunday morning to record our first live festival podcast. 

A big shout-out to the vendors and the Cos Players, both local as well as the international flair brought by the members of Los Frikis de la Galaxia from Spain- you were all amazing and you brought so much fun and entertainment to our beautiful town.

To the people who provided music and entertainment in the square as well as the chefs in our Malaysian-themed tent- what a great atmosphere you created. We’d also like to thank the Guards, Council, Stewards, Dunmanway Chamber of Commerce, photographers media and PR and anyone that helped in any way.

To the schools -thank you for decorating many shop windows with your fabulous art. 

To all those who dressed up throughout the festival and who turned out for our street parade-it was a great way to mark another weekend of fun and frolics. 

And finally, to the businesses and many sponsors who contributed so generously- without you,  this could never have been possible.

We are already looking forward to Feel the Force 2026!