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06 Sept 2025

PICTURES: Cullohill's Folly Festival 2024 ends on a high

With cooking and painting demos to live music and crafts

PICTURES: Folly Festival 2024 ends on a high

Cullohill's Folly Festival 2024 has come to a close, and has left its attendees on a high

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PICTURES: Alf Harvey

07 Jul 2024 7:48 PM

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Cullohill's Folly Festival 2024 has come to a close, and has left its attendees on a high. 
The festival was enjoyable for all ages- from live cooking demonstrations from renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School and TV Chef Rory O’Connell, to the music from local artists and headliners. 
There were stalls upon stalls of local artisans showcasing their foods and drinks, in the Laois Taste section of the festival. 
There were market stalls of everything from t-shirts to trinkets, with long queues found at each stall front. 
Local artist Marie Moylan held a live painting demo, which was flocked to by many. 
The foodie programme will kicked off at midday with a foraging expedition from Wild Food Mary.
It wouldn’t be a rural Irish festival without a live screening of a match taking place simultaneously. The All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final saw Kilkenny vs Clare broadcast to the big screen, once acts had finished preforming. 
At 3pm, there was a fascinating panel discussion with Tanguy De Toulgoet of Dunmore Country School on the joys of sustainable gardening alongside gardening correspondent with the Irish Times and co-owner of the Irish Flower Farmer Fionnuala Fallon, Wild Food Mary( Mary Bulfin) and Rory O’Connell.
Throughout the day, there were performances punctuated by numerous daytime events for all ages, such as magic shows and a wide variety of games. Nancy’s yard saw the host of numerous family activities and non-stop entertainment.

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