With the festival season in full swing, this weekend promises much entertainment with scattered showers and the odd traffic diversion.
It will be a weekend of bright spells broken by rain showers according to Met Eireann. Tomorrow's forecast is bright and sunny for most of the day with a few showers mainly in the East.
Much the same is expected on Sunday, with the rain spreading to some western and northern areas mainly along the coast.
Dublin will be a hotbed of construction works, particularly around train stations.
DART, Drogheda and Belfast train services will be affected as work resumes on the replacement of the East Wall Road Bridge. The work will begin at 9 p.m. on Saturday and continue through Sunday.
Northside DART and Drogheda suburban services will operate on a limited timetable, with bus transfers between Tara Street and Clontarf Road. The Belfast Enterprise service will depart up to 40 minutes earlier than normal times from Dublin, with bus transfers between Connolly and Drogheda Station. It will run a full timetable.
On Monday commuters take note, a new platform will open at Heuston Station so passengers should allow extra time to transfer from the main terminal to the new platform. There will be a special ticket office for Platform 10 which will service routes to Kildare, Portlaoise, Cork, Limerick and Ballina.
For those interested in getting out and about, the Galway Arts Festival is brewing up a storm. As it is the festival's 25th anniversary, the programme is crammed with unique performances by leading luminaries from the world of arts and entertainment.
It is the last weekend of the Earagail Arts Festival which boasts more than one hundred events in forty venues in twenty towns and villages throughout North Donegal.
Meanwhile in the south east, the JFK Dunbrody Festival will take place in New Ross, Co Wexford. Entertainment and the arts will feature alongside more serious debates in the Jean Kennedy Smith Symposium. Among the speakers will be former US president, Mr Bill Clinton, and former Secretary for Northern Irealnd, Ms Mo Moland. Meanwhile acts will include Mary Black, The Revs and Don Baker.
Soccer headlines in Dublin with the Shelbourne-Manchester United match at Tolka Park tomorrow at 2 p.m.
Motorists will feel the weight of the game with traffic restrictions as Richmond Road between Gracepark Road and Drumcondra Road will be closed from midday to 5 p.m. The junction of Richmond Road/Fairview and Gracepark Road/Gracepark Terrace will be closed off from 12.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.