Limerick’s Gerry Andrews - A young fellah with a camera

Limerick photographer Gerry Andrews tells Richard Fitzpatrick some of the stories behind his incredible pictures from the city’s Milk Market in the 1970s

GERRY Andrews first discovered the Limerick Milk Market on the eve of the 1960s. It was the run-up to Christmas. For a seven-year-old kid, it was the most intoxicating place in the world — the bustle, the carol singing, the haggling and the slaughter, complete with airborne turkey feathers.

“I was hooked on the Limerick Milk Market,” he says, “from an early age, from the time I used to go with my mother when she was doing her shopping at Christmas time. It was an annual trip to get the turkey there. It had that buzz. The minute you went through the gate, you knew you were in a special place.”