Pick up a coffee and fix your stuff in repair cafes around Ireland

At pop up repair cafés, you can grab a coffee and learn how to fix household goods, writes Noel Baker.

HAVE you ever darned a shirt? Fixed a plug? Repaired a stereo? Now you can and have a cup of tea, too. Pop-up repair cafés are growing in popularity with events held in Co Kerry, Co Wicklow, Westmeath and Co Dublin. The cafés help people with those minor, but potentially costly, repair problems that beset us all.

I grew up on a farm, so I like to think I’m handy when it comes to certain tasks; and yet, at others I’m as useless as the next person.