Eight annual Cork Craft Month delivers on cracking designs

Carol O’Callaghan has a day out to see some of the Cork Craft Month events taking place in September

Seasonally appropriate Mackerel plates by Charlie Mahon from the Cork Craft & Design shop, Douglas (from €35).

The eight annual Cork Craft Month is underway with a programme of over 50 events around the city and county, involving 100 members of the craft collective, Cork Craft and Design.

Running it all is the collective’s operations manager, Siubhán McCarthy, who is based at its permanent retail premises in St Patrick’s Woollen Mills.