White knuckle rides and black knuckle tattoos at BikeFest

Catherine Treacy, Marcus Treacy and Margaret O’Donoghue

Mechanic Greg Pienknowski tinkering with the engine

Marco O’Neill, Anthony Purcell and Dubs Haiday

Fiona Carroll and Trevor Edwards

A little pinch: Tattoo artist Kamilo Pantano Ano from Pachamama Tattoo Studio, Killarney was kept busy

Bap O’Neill enjoying the festival

Bap O’Neill and Iwona Ziolkowska

Catch Doolan and John Kehoe

John Fleming and Hugh O’Donoghue enjoying the festival

A warm welcome back for regular biker ‘Smokey’ from County Waterford

‘Smokey’ with Gerry Moriarty and Lauren O’Driscoll

The O’Donoghue family, Timmy, Nicola, son Blake, and their new born twins, Robyn and Joey O’Donoghue

The night is only kicking off at Ireland BikeFest Killarney

Fun in the air overlooking Killarney

Who’s a good girl? The Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind, were the main beneficiary of this year’s Harley Davidson raffle

Cheers: Martin Donnegan and John O’Malley

Tara McCarthy, Brendan O’Grady and John Byrne

Karen and Lily Kelly at Ireland BikeFest

The roar of the engines signalled their arrival and right through the weekend hundreds of bikers and their friends packed Killarney for the spectacular annual Ireland BikeFest.

Leather and denim was the uniform of choice as the colourful bikers flocked to town to enjoy a fantastic line-up of free entertainment at the festival headquarters in the Gleneagle Hotel.

This year’s programme featured some major heavy metal acts taking to the main INEC stage, the outdoor stage in the Bike Village and the Harley Bar.

The rock classics were churned out by some of the greatest tribute and cover bands on the planet and, in between the live acts, patrons were spoilt for choice with some opting for a white-knuckle ride on the ferris wheel and others choosing to go the black knuckle route by adding to their tattoos.

Ireland Bikefest is renowned as one of Europe’s premier free open motorcycle festivals and it is a firm favourite of bikers, aspiring bikers, families, visitors and locals.

Motorcycle enthusiasts from around the world made the most of the fantastic scenery, touring routes, hospitality and festival atmosphere with daily ride-outs and, as always, the spectacular parade of bikes and bikers which drew Killarney town centre to a standstill this Sunday as the public lined the streets to greet the bikers and their dream machines.

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