West Springfield is entering into a sister city agreement with a municipality in Ireland.
A memorandum of understanding was signed earlier this week in Ireland between the country's Kerry County Council and West Springfield Mayor William Reichelt to form the agreement with Dingle, a town in the southwest part of the country.
Reichelt says the area was selected because of the large number of Irish descendants in West Springfield, and specifically from Ireland's Dingle Peninsula and Blasket Islands.