Dublin Winter Lights Logo
Lógó soilsiú geimhridh bhaile átha cliath
Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath’s Dublin City Council’s logo showing our three castles and the liffey waves in a shield shape
TwinkleTrail Poster

Dublin City Council

TwinkleTrail

1st December – 5th January 

Explore Dublin city through a whole new lens on the magical Dublin City Council TwinkleTrail. The city centre will be Twinkled with beautiful light cubes, stunning displays and inspired illuminations giving the city centre a whole new Twinkle life this festive season.

TwinkleTrail Locations

O’Connell Street

With giant sparkling reindeers, a magnificent Christmas tree festooned with lights, colourful light boxes with festive Christmas images, a huge Love Dublin sign and a big star for selfies as well as eight colourful light projections that dance across the GPO, it's a great time to visit O'Connell Street.

Mansion House

Step through the glimmering archways and into a magical world of twinkling lights, Shooting Stars & Carol Performances in the courtyard. Under shimmering fairy lights, take a photo in the beautiful, fully accessible sleigh. Be part of a Dublin Christmas tradition by visiting the IFA Live Animal Crib to meet the friendly donkeys, sheep, and goats in a warm and welcoming setting.

Barnardo Square

Enjoy the festive atmosphere surrounded by fantastic Christmas light projections. There's a colourful advent calendar light projection on City Hall and wonderful images by talented young artists showing how Dublin City Centre Twinkles at Christmas projected onto the side of Palace Street Building. With a magical giant Twinkling star for selfies, it's a great place to be!

Other locations along the trail

GPO (General Post Office)

Dynamic digital projections of stunning artworks by 8 leading national and international digital artists will feature on this iconic building.

The Spire

The Spire will become a beacon of light visible for miles around with beams of light projecting into the sky.

O’Connell Street - Trees

Colour changing LED lighting will transform the trees along O’Connell Street.

Dublin Castle - Courtyard

‘Flux’ from French artists collective ‘SCALE’ redesigns its surroundings and offers a unique, playful and frenetic show in which the choreography intimately dialogues with the music.

Dublin Castle - Lower Yard

A video mapping artwork from artist Jack Phelan will projected on to a neo-classical building in the lower yard of Dublin Castle.

Palace Street Gate

The archway to Dublin Castle will be transformed with dynamic light projections, becoming a colourful entrance that leads to two light displays in Dublin Castle.

Palace Street

The artworks from the annual Children’s Winter Art competition will be projected onto the side of Palace Street.

City Hall

The colourful video mapping from Lightscape Studios projected onto City Hall will have an advent calendar theme.

Newcomen Bank

In collaboration with Belfast’s Visual Spectrum Studios, 'Dublin City Council Dublin Winter Lights' will present a video mapping on the former Newcomen Bank.

Accessibility Statement

Statement of Commitment

  • This statement was updated on 09 September 2026
  • Dublin City Council is committed to making the Dublin Liffey Festival website accessible, in accordance with the European Union (Accessibility of Websites and Mobile Applications of Public Sector Bodies) Regulations 2020.
  • We are committed to achieving the AA standard under WCAG 2.1 guidelines.
  • This accessibility statement applies to the Dublin Liffey Festival website only – not other websites or subdomains.

Compliance status

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard.

Non-accessible content

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  • Videos: may not contain captions/transcripts or other accessibility features.

How we test the dublinliffeyfestival.ie site

We use the WCAG level AA guidelines to test how accessible https://dublinliffeyfestival.ie/ is. We used the Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) approach to assess the site. We have completed accessibility audits on every page of the Dublin Liffey Festival website.

Some of the tools used for the audit process are:

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

We will work with partners to publish HTML pages instead of less accessible formats like PDF when possible. When possible, we will add captions/transcripts to the videos.

Feedback and contact information

If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, contact [email protected]

Escalation of a complaint

If you are not happy with the response, then you can make a complaint to the Ombudsman under the Disability Act.