Christmas spirit: St Fin Barre's choir has no truck with Covid as it brings carols to the streets

Cathedral choir, singing since at least 1328, is bringing seasonal songs to Cork City using a mobile screen and speaker system
Christmas spirit: St Fin Barre's choir has no truck with Covid as it brings carols to the streets

The choir of St Fin Barre's Cathedral in Cork have turned the tables on Covid and Omicron by bringing a carol service to the public via the latest mobile LED screen technology mounted on a truck. Picture: Larry Cummins

Never mind the boys of the NYPD choir — the members of Cork’s famous St Fin Barre's Cathedral choir are taking their uplifting and traditional carol service on a citywide tour by truck.

The truck parked outside the city’s Mercy University Hospital (MUH) yesterday and broadcast the performance via a big screen and special sound projection to staff and patients, many of whom watched from inside their hospital windows.

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