With over twenty stalls offering home-made food and drinks, gardening, environmental information, music and Santa, quality was the theme of the afternoon at An tIonad Glas on Saturday last.
The town that gave us the first creamery co-operative and turned raw milk into quality butter over a century ago, at a time of an immense economic crisis, relived its collective spirit and turned local fruit and vegetables into rhubarb cordial drinks, garlic flavoured oils, a host of chutneys, jams, mini quiches, herbal creams, teas, soaps, chocolate flavoured cherries.
Children were equally treated with a room for their own entertainment and a discrete figure in red, occasionally offering ginger cakes, without a fizzy drink in sight.
Locally grown daffodils set to open in the next week and a variety of hyacinth flowers as well as vegetables, trees and shrubs gave the invitation to the outdoors even in a cold December. Pottery hand-made and glazed in Knocknagoshel as well as hand crafted wallets and bags from Broadford and a variety of West African crafts added to the local and international flavour of the day.
The tea stall takings and the raffle, both of which were very well supported were in aid of the local respite centre and for relief of recent flood victims fund of Vincent de Paul.
The day concluded with live music from a group of college students and children of all ages danced.