Boyle’s Lough Key Forest Park will host the 2025 Irish Ballooning Championship.
Formal details will be announced this coming Thursday at an event in the Park at 2.30pm where there will be a number of hot air balloons in attendance (weather permitting).
The first Ballooning Championship was held in Boyle in September 1979 when nine balloons gathered to launch from the great lawn in Rockingham. After a break for a few years, in 1989, the balloons came back to the area and remained here for many more years more.
In recent times, the Championship has been held in Birr, Co. Offaly.
