Friendship Week: We need your stories

We will be looking at friendship next week with a series about those important and life-enhancing relationships in our lives.

Friendship Week will delve into issues such as why friendships – from best mates to bromances – are so important, how to nurture them, what to do when they turn sour, how to stay connected in different countries and how to sustain these vital connections through the decades.

Throughout Friendship Week our writers – including Michael Harding, Donald Clarke, Hilary Fannin, Conor Pope, Laura Kennedy and Trish Murphy – will be writing on this subject – but we want to hear from readers too. How did you meet your best friend? What do you look for in a friend? What is the best thing a friend of yours ever did? Or the worst?

Share your most meaningful, amusing or uplifting friendship story and you could be in with a chance to win a two-night break at Hotel Meyrick in Galway for you and your friend.

Email us on friendship@irishtimes.com with a story of no more than 300 words, and attach a relevant high-resolution photo if you have one. The closing date for entries is Wednesday, February 10th.

• February 8th-12th is Friendship Week in The Irish Times