Limerick hosts ‘Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’

Dowries of over €100,000, emerald green dresses and enough bling to make your eyes water — welcome to Big Fat Gypsy Wedding Rathkeale-style.

The story called Spiritual Home of Travellers features large in the hit TV show tonight when Chantelle Kealy returns to the Limerick town from her travels in Europe to marry her first cousin Jim.

In the hit Channel 4 series, which inspired Kate Moss to get married, Rathkeale club owner Davey Mann, who hosts many of the Traveller wedding parties at his Loft Bar, reveals that dowries still change hands.