The Irish Games Association hosts Ireland’s oldest independent gaming convention, Gaelcon. In 2025, it takes place from October 24th – 27th.
Convention Opening Hours:
🕒 Friday from 5pm to 1am
🕒 Saturday from 9am to 1am
🕒 Sunday from 9am to 1am
🕒Monday from 9am to 5pm
Charity Partners:
Updates on Gaelcon
Boardgame Schedule Announced
The 4-day schedule for the boardgames area is now live for Gaelcon 2024. Pick out the games you want to play and comment on the geeklist for soft pre-bookings. All details can be found here: https://iga.ie/boardgames-schedule-2024/
Die of the year poll winners announced
In the running, of course, was fan favourite d4, more lethal than Lego in the long-pile carpet, but utimately pretty unsatisfying in its arerobatics. This year it gets an honourable mention. Runner up is the d20; good balance of being readable and providing a range of numbers, which d10 ultimately has to pair up to…
We’re ramping up for the Con
The poster is out, and it’s awesome: see what you see here. It’s led to a particularly fetching T-shirt for the merch-hungry. The Urgent: Wanna run/demo/teach a boardgame at Gaelcon 36? Deadline for applications is fast approaching. This is of tremendous interest to that community and they’re super encouraging if you want to try something. Here’s the link.…