How Fota prepares for 60,000 visitors to Santa
I meet Seamus Leahy in the middle of October; the annual hunt for Halloween costumes and the perfect pumpkin has already begun. But Leahy is full of festive spirit of another sort: as marketing director of Fota Island Resort, he oversees one of the largest and most popular Christmas attractions in the country. By Halloween, he is already knee-deep in preparations and his eyes twinkle when he tells me how, when it comes to organising the event, he takes his orders from the top man himself.
“Santa likes to shake it up every year. He doesn’t like us to rest us on our laurels,” he laughs.
