Cork Federation celebrates 80th birthday in style

Cork Federation should have celebrated their 80th birthday earlier this year but with all the commemorative events around 1916, they decided to put it on hold until the first Sunday in December when they hosted a dinner in Innishannon House Hotel.

About 100 women from guilds in the five regions of Cork Federation sat down to the meal and they were delighted to welcome National ICA president Marie O’Toole and regional president of the South and East Dee Devereux.

The federation was set up in Bandon but some Cork guilds are older than the federation — Innishannon Guild, for example, was set up 84 years ago.