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AFTER AN ELEVENTH-HOUR venue cancellation, the Dublin Christmas Market has finally found a new home.
It was initially supposed to be located in the old John Player factory in Dublin 8, after a number of years in Smithfield.
The not-for-profit event had been given the go-ahead to run the market at the factory, but that was later withdrawn by its tenants.
Organiser Sharon Greene had told TheJournal.ie that they were in a major search for a new venue, and needed somewhere with around 2,000 square metres and ground-floor access.
Today, Greene said that after they put a call out for help, “we were amazed by the positive reaction and support from all corners of the city in response to our plea”.
We have been inundated with recommendations of possible venues, contacts, leads, offers of all sorts, including hot soup for our late night work.
They have finally found a new venue – the Point Village beside 3 Arena.
“We are thrilled to be trading from there for the duration of the weekend 11 to 13 December and we would love to thank everybody who helped us get here,” said Greene.
So the countdown has begun again – this day next week we will have 110 stalls of Irish art, design, craft, collectibles, fashion. furniture, books, music and gifts trading from the Point Village.
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Delighted for them.
Great news…..best of luck in your new home
Great news they got a new venue
Point Village needs all the help it can get too. Hopefully the weather is reasonable at least. Would be a great spot for similar year round if it wasn’t so open to the elements. Will this a go no doubt.
In general,Christmas markets are a rip off.Over priced food and over priced items that you wouldn’t pay the prices for in a regular shop.Just because it says craft or handmade,doesn’t mean it’s worth paying a high price for.
Theres one in Limerick near the hunt museum this weekend sponsored by a well known retailer, €1 for a coffee, €2 for a BBQ burger or hot dog, €7 to see Santa, €1 rides. Fair enough it’s small but at these prices who cares and somehow they’re making money for barretstown as well
Good luck to them.Will definitely travel up from Galway to visit it.Galway Xmass market has turned into a complete and utter joke that no stallholder could possibly make money out of.
Are they gonna charge 6 euro for a shot of mulled wine like in the IFSC
Probably will.Look at the rides they have there.€3 a go and it’s running empty.If it was €2 more people would flock to the place
Wong link to the markets website should behttp://dublinchristmasflea.ie/ dates are Fri 11th – Sun 13th December 2015
Should be called the Flea (Hoppers) Market (sic!). Fantastic publicity all the same.
A joke. Christmas market needs to be right in the city centre. Look at Manchester as an example. Both venues were poorly located. Just my opinion
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