KERRY has another festival to look forward to this autumn as Cromane Seafest hosted the official launch party for the upcoming Food & Maritime Festival last weekend.
Taking place on September 14/15, the village will enjoy an array of activities. The Seafest Committee Crew, made up of local people from different age groups, have put together an amazing festival celebrating Cromane’s finest local seafoods with maritime market tastings where you can meet the friendly fishermen who work hard to bring you the freshest and finest Cromane Mussels, Oysters and Salmon.
Local Oyster Farmers will be the stars of the weekend when they battle it out for Cromane First Oyster Shucking Champion. Festive go-ers that are not seafood lovers, can still enjoy the fayre with an abundance of quality festive food trucks.
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Cromane’s own and Kerry Footballer, Donnchadh Walsh opened the launch at Jack’s Coastguard Restaurant and gave guests an insight to his life growing up in the area from picking periwinkles on the beach to rowing for the local club and finally putting roots down at Cromane Football Club.
“Cromane is a hidden gem but our hidden gem is getting noticed far and wide. We have the best oysters, mussels and salmon in the land, our location is idyllic and we are proud to show it off to the masses,” Donnchadh said. He went on to thank the committee for organising a new and special event in Cromane’s future calendar.
Fionan Walsh, Cromane Seafest Committee, gave details of what to expect at the event, detailing the attractions and activities that will be taking place.
He advised guests to come and enjoy the array Surf and Turf activities including BIM’s Remote Arc Classroom, water trampoline, kayaking, SUP Boarding, beach safari’s and kite flying demos to mention a few.
With knot tying lessons to trawler races, kids activities as well as food and drinks galore, the weekend is jam packed of Food, Family Time and Fun.
For tickets and Information check out the Cromane SeaFest website https://www.cromaneseafest.com/ or you can follow all the updates on their social media channels on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.