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East Cork Christmas Market in Aid of East Cork Rapid Response Raises Almost €2,000
by LEAH RING The East Cork Christ-
mas Market in the Gar- ryvoe Hotel on Sunday, 11 December raised almost €2,000 in aid of the East Cork Rapid Response. Co-Organiser
Mary
Griffin said: “It all went really, really well. It was hugely well attended and
we were all delighted to raise
almost €2,000 for
the East Cork Rapid Re- sponse.” The market has been running for a number of years now and stall hold- ers from across East Cork get involved. Mrs Griffin explained:
“There was a massive variety of stalls this year
with home baking, gluten free baking, ceramics, all kinds of things. We had a man selling fantastic coins and a couple of guys do- ing some beautiful wood- work. Orla O’Rourke was selling the most amazing pottery and Darina and Rory Allen had a stall… There was just so much there on the day.”
Along with this, a num-
ber of stalls sold Christ- mas gifts, including deco- rations, hand knitted toys and dolls and some sweet treats for all the last min- ute shoppers still search- ing for the perfect present. “It was really nice to see
so many involved and new people, who had never at- tended the event before,
were really blown away by the quality of everything available,” Mrs Griffin said. Five years ago a group friends from the area
of
came up with the idea and began recruiting people from across the communi- ty to get involved. Mrs Griffin explained:
“We were a group of about 5 or 6 who just got together through garden- ing. We
started selling
our own gardening things on Sundays in summer outside the church and it
went from there and mor- phed into a Christmas market.” Three
years ago the
event moved to the Gar- ryvoe and has expanded annually since. Mrs Griffin explained:
“It is fantastic. It started off with six friends and now we have about 60 stallholders. We keep it all as local as possible, with products as local as pos- sible and all coming from small businesses.” The group hope to help promote local companies
Thursday, 15th
December 2016
and give small businesses a chance at
the annual
market. “It gives people a
chance to showcase their work. Many of them wouldn’t have another outlet to do that,” Mrs Griffin said. The
mittee of the East Cork Christmas Market cerely ryvoe
organising com- sin-
thanked the Gar- Hotel for their
generosity and assistance along with the stall hold- ers and members of the community who attended.
• Margaret Mohally and Iryna Harty.
• Daireen Foott, Ide O’Riordan and Deobrah Fearon.
• Willie Scanlon and Joan Smiddy.
• The Philpott Family.
• Betty Mammeri and Ber Higgins.
• Martin, Eve and Fionn Buckley.
• Sandra Finn and Betty Mammeri.
• Gareth Roche and Karina Clifford.
• Ann Keniry, Teresa Kenefiick and Pauline Cotter.
• Chris O’Conner and Claire McCarthy.
• Breda Foley, Liz Aherne and Ann Fahey. Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email:
info@eastcorkjournal.ie • Web:
www.eastcorkjournal.ie
• Ber Motherway and Caroline Cashman. eastcorkjournal @eastcorkjournal / #eastcorkjournal
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