Ashford Honey Festival

THE Second Ashford Honey Festival takes place at Ashford Community and Heritage Centre on Saturday, September 22.

A full programme of events is lined up for the occasion and the festival will also include honey tasting, local honey, face painting, a raffle, observation hives, bee friendly plants, refreshments and cakes. Admission is free.

The doors open at 11 a.m. and Minister of State, Andrew Doyle TD will officially open the festival at 1.30 p.m.

Phillip McCabe, of Apimondia, the International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations, will deliver a talk at 2 p.m.. There will also be a storytelling for children session.

At 2.45 p.m. there will be a children’s art competition. James Hanley of the RHA will announce the winners and deliver the prizes.

A raffle takes place at 3.15 p.m. and the prizes will be presented by Wicklow Rose 2018 Lorna Mallick.

The festival will draw to a close at 4 p.m.

ABOVE: Cllr Pat Kennedy, Theresa Byrne, Ann Doyle and Breda Devitt at the presentation night in O’Toole’s Aughrim. LEFT: Theresa and Ellen Durkin presenting Liam Roberts with the trophy for ’Best Cheviot Ewes Lambs’.

John Donnelly, Ashling O’Reilly, Yvonne Whitty and Fintan O’Reilly.

Jamie O’Neill, Harold Young and Harry Winterbotham.