Where there’s a wool there’s a way for charity knitters

A tight-knit group facing a looming festive deadline has issued a special appeal for volunteers to give their charity knitting campaign socks.

For months now, members of an enterprising knitting group in East Cork have been beavering away on their ambitious Knit Happens campaign to knit 5,000 miniature Christmas socks in aid of the East Cork Rapid Response emergency service.

With help from pupils in local schools, they have cast on and cast off their way through hundreds of metres of leftover double knit yarn to produce an incredible 4,300 socks so far.