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KERRY’S Dingle Food Festival and the Valentia Island Development Company were honoured at the all-Ireland Pride of Place community awards on Saturday evening.
The awards, hosted by Marty Morrissey, took place online due to the Covid pandemic with 6,000 people logging in from across Ireland to see community groups pick up gongs.
Dingle Food Festival took top spot in Creative Place Initiative with judges praising the innovating on display when they visited the town.
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“This is the story of a well-known and long established event that is truly community based and built around a town. It is about food offerings and local suppliers, with local sponsorship. The creativity is in the local sourcing food and its presentation, which the judges thought innovative and outstanding!”
The Valentia Island Development Company were runners up in the Community Tourism category, losing out to Kilkenny’s Castlecomer Discovery Park.
Sponsored by IPB Insurance, the Pride of Place competition was initiated 18 years ago though a Co-operation Ireland programme to acknowledge the invaluable work undertaken by volunteers and those involved in local community development.
It has grown into the largest competition recognising community development achievements on the island of Ireland.
