Guild enjoys picnic in the shed

DISAPPOINTING summer weather wasn’t going to put paid to Shanagarry ICA’s plans to hold a Big Picnic for Barretstown.

Their event had to be staged in a shed, but the guild raised €500 for the specially-designed Co Kildare-based camp that provides therapeutic recreation programmes for children with serious illnesses and their families.

“We decided to have a slightly different sort of picnic, one of our members offered the use of her farm shed, so we wouldn’t be weather dependent. The shed was decorated with coloured table cloths, jars of garden flowers, fairy lights, music, and of course the Burco boiler,” explained a member.