Thursday, 15th
December 2016
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Ballintotis Community Centre’s Inaugural Christmas Market Leaves Everybody Happy
by ALAN SHEEHAN and ANDREA
CUNNINGHAM Ballintotis Community
Centre held its first Christ- mas market to a great pub-
lic reception on Sunday, 4 December. Thirty-five stalls were set
up in the Ballintotis Com- munity Centre,
an assortment of festive gifts and treats, including
offering
Christmas cakes and pud- dings to crochet, knitting, paintings on canvas, oc- casional Christmas gifts, candles, and more to be perused by the public from 11am-4pm. Admission to
the market was free, as was the price to hold a stall for the day. “It went very well. We’d
35 exhibitors there on the day,” said John Cashman, member of the organising
committee. “They all re- ported a positive response to
their stalls. It seems
businesses was pretty good. We’d a steady footfall of people on the day. We’d signs on the road too, so I think that attracted pas- sers-by as well. There was hundreds throughout the day. There was a fair foot- fall of people in the hall at all times, with people com-
ing and going. There was a very good crowd there.” It’s hoped and expect-
ed that the first Christmas Market at the Ballintotis Community Centre will not be the last. “We’d be hoping to make it an annu- al event on the calendar,” said Mr Cashman, “judg- ing by the reaction we got. It’d be the same time next year, late November, early
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December. Lots said they’d come back again, and lots of the Exhibitors said they’d come back again next year.” “We’d like to thank
everybody who turned up on the day,” said Mr Cashman. “We’d like to acknowledge them and thank all the stall-holders and everybody who turned up.”
• Carragh and Orlagh Hickey.
• Stephen Cody with Chloe Mackey and Dylan Stapleton.
• Sean and Jane Murphy with Ger Broderick.
• Karen, Faye , Ella and Karl Fitzgerald
• Jane Murphy, Jean and Ger O’Gorman, Community Council.
• Elaine Garde and Geraldine Lane.
• Mary Bransfield and Pat Quinlan
• Frances Lucey and Suzanne O’Sullivan.
• Stephen Wimpenny and Ewan Dara.
• Amy and Emma Harty. @eastcorkjournal / #eastcorkjournal eastcorkjournal
• Gerry Smyth and John Kennedy.
• Dylan Sexton, Sean Crowley and Kieran Daly. Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email:
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