Queen says thanks for meat and greet
Tom Durcan, chairman of the market’s trader’s association, who presented the Queen and her husband with a hamper of famous market delicacies, including the city’s famous spiced beef and local cheeses, said he was delighted to receive the reply. “I plan to frame it and put it on display in my stall,” he said.
The Queen wrote to former Lord Mayor Michael O’Connell some weeks ago saying she and the Duke of Edinburgh were deeply moved by the warmth of the welcome to Cork on the last day of their historic state visit to Ireland last May.
