Valentia shop reopens after 21 years

If the rest of the summer on Valentia island is anything like June, the ice-creams in Tony Walsh’s shop will be selling like — well — hot cakes.

Which makes the timing right to reopen his shop in Knightstown after a closure of 21 years.

Valentia recorded its sunniest June in 74 years, with 265 hours of sunshine breaking the record last set in 1940.