![ICON: Belfast-born Woolsthorpe resident Paddy Kelly at the Koroit Irish Festival parade. Picture: Chris Doheny ICON: Belfast-born Woolsthorpe resident Paddy Kelly at the Koroit Irish Festival parade. Picture: Chris Doheny](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/134792786/640465c5-fecd-4dba-90fe-321f17d88368.jpg/r0_0_3619_2413_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
ICON: Belfast-born Woolsthorpe resident Paddy Kelly at the Koroit Irish Festival parade. Picture: Chris Doheny
It was an Irish festival like no other as speed-eating champions travelled across states to chow down on some spuds, red-heads came from far and wide to battle it out in the flaming folk competition and dogs the size of horses paraded the grounds of Koroit.
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See some of the highlights of the festival below.