October is peak conker season. You only have to cast your mind back to days in the national school playground, when the competition was stiff and battles were hard fought to establish which kid had the king of the conkers.
Conkers is a game played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees, so there’s no shortage of them! And it's a game that can safely be described as good, clean fun.
Whilst many schools and communities have kept the conker tradition going in the form of competitions, Dublin North Bay Tourism has now organized an open All Ireland Conker and Cone Championship Tournament with two All-Ireland titles at stake.
The Mooney Goes Wild team sent Terry Flanagan, a reporter and esteemed conker correspondent, off to St. Anne's Park in Dublin to meet up with Denis McIntyre, of Dublin Bay North Tourism, to find out more. Check him out in the video above.
- Words by Sinead Renshaw
For further information about the Tournament, which takes place in St. Anne's Park, Dublin, on October 21st 2018, click here.
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