In just three months, the South East will discover if it will play host to the European Capital of Culture for 2020.
Last November, the Three Sisters bid containing Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford advanced through the first phase, along with Galway and Limerick.
Now the bid team is preparing for a visit by the judging panel which will take place in July.
Bid Advisor Mary McCarthy was part of the successful Cork bid in 2001, and she says the one for the South East has a lot of potential:
"While for the public they may not know so much about it yet - I think most of the efforts immediately have been going about, like pulling the programme together, putting the partnership level agreements together rather than the public facing element of it.
And I think that public facing communication with the public will now start.
There is a possibility online for the public to submit ideas and the response has been enormous to that actually, like, what do you think can happen in the region, how can we express our culture."
