Cork:
The city's millennium celebrations will begin at sunset today when 2000 Corkonians will line the banks of the Lee illuminating the river with torches. At 2 p.m. there is a free open-air concert in Emmet Place with music from the 1960s. A ceili will take place at the same venue later in the evening. The streets will be buzzing with a carnival featuring Jan de Man Entertainments and at midnight a fireworks will be visible all over the city.
Bantry Gala Millennium Ball, The Westlodge Hotel, Cork - banquet with champagne toast, £99.
Globe Millennium Party, Washington Street, Cork - champagne buffet in Reardon's bar followed by DJs on three floors, £35.
Limerick:
The ESB Millennium Concert is one of the main events tonight in the University Concert Hall combining various musical styles of the millennium. Hosted by Ray D'arcy, the programme includes dancing until the early hours of the morning. The city's Last Light ceremony takes place in the centre at 4 p.m. when the natural sunlight begins to fade.
Millennium Spectacular, Dolan's Warehouse with Status Quo tribute band, £45.
Patsy Cline Evening, Fitzgerald's Woodland House Hotel, £30.
New Year's Eve Party Disco, Coolio's Nightclub, Church Street, Newcastle West, £15.
Galway
The free all-day fun begins in Eyre Square at 2 p.m. with performers such as Johnny Massacre, Pippa the Clown and the Galway Early Music Society providing family entertainment. At 3.15 p.m. De Danann join Eleanor Shanley in an open-air concert. By 4.30 p.m. the sun will be setting and at the Last Light ceremony, the Mayor of Galway, Alderman Declan McDonnell, will light a giant candle.
This will be followed by the Macnas Millennium Street Parade from Eyre Square to the Black Box where at 5.30 p.m. there will be a fireworks display. The family festivities will come to an end with a fire sculpture, installed for the evening by Lasracht Draiochta.
South-East
Festivities in Waterford begin at 10 a.m. with fire jugglers outside St Olaf's Hall as the Human Millennium Clock art exhibition is opened. This array of children's paintings, models and montages will be displayed all day in shop windows. Waterford majorettes and Zendini the escapologist will perform at 11 p.m. at the Granville and Tower Hotels. At 1 p.m. an indoor music festival begins in City Square with Calum and the South Eastern Set Dancers.
The Last Light ceremony will take place at Greyfriars the French Church at 4 p.m. with Janus and a brass ensemble. At night the action turns to the riverside with the Quay to Our Future open-air party with fire jugglers, majorettes, drummers, a community choir, Val Doonican and fireworks.
New Year's Eve Party - Lambert's, Camolin, Wexford, with resident DJs, £25.
Millennium Ball, Ferrycarrig Hotel, Wexford - dinner and dancing with one night's accommodation, £150.