From across the bridge, down MacCurtain Street and 'up from the Quays' they came to pack a fair section of Fermoy's main thoroughfare for last Friday evening's formal Christmas lights 'light up'.

For the chairman of the Christmas Lights Committee Cllr Noel McCarthy, it made for an impressive spectacle. 

According to informed sources, last Friday evening's event was the largest ever attendance at the switch on ceremony in Fermoy. 

Prior to the town lighting up, there was a concert by The Grass Margin Christmas Band …

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