The Wool Marquee returns to Dingle Food festival following its success and engagement with visitors last year during the festival. Spearheaded by West Kerry Wool, INHFA and Kerry Lamb CoOp. Join us for interesting displays of Irish grown wool products, expert panel talks on wool and wool spinning demos over the two days of the festival, Saturday 5th to Sunday 6th October 2024.
The Irish Grown Wool Council will be part of the Wool Marquee in the Dingle Food Festival, sharing innovations and discussions around Irish grown wool with visitors to the festival. On display will be products and information for the general public with a sustainable focus, for home and gardens and beyond, which use Irish grown wool, informing consumers of the potential of this sustainable biofibre for their homes and gardens.
Exhibitors within the Wool Marquee will include sustainable sleeping bedding from Dooleys Wool, wool pellet organic fertiliser from Larkfield Pellet Products, Donegal Yarns, Galway Wool Co-Op, Kerry Woollen Mills, Kerry Lamb Wool Co-Op, Fiadh Woven, Joe Kelleher, Organic Specialist, Teagasc and Wool Hub, Munster Technological University.
Wool Spinning demonstrations over the weekend by Una Ní Shea and Lori Enright.
Members of the Wool Hub panel including Catriona Power; MTU & Manager Circular Bioeconomy Cluster and Tim Yeomans, Centre Manager, Shannon Applied Biotechnology Centre will join panel participants including Dinny Galvin, Agriculture Liaison Office, Dingle Hub and Kevin Dooley, Wool Merchant. MTU and Shannon ABC’s research project ‘Springwool’ (which focuses on removing obstacles and providing a springboard for innovation in the Irish-grown wool sector recently received €574,683 from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine). Our wool panel talk on Saturday will be moderated by Sari Houlihan, Presenter of ‘Agritime’ for Radio Kerry and on Sunday by Aisling O’Brien from Agriland.
An all-island initiative, the objective of the Irish Grown Wool Council is to transform Irish-grown wool; an underutilised and undervalued resource, into a branded value-added product for the benefit of farmers and the wider supply chain. We are developing collaborations to apply innovative solutions to address current challenges and create pioneering innovation in bio-fibers and sustainable practices for the development of the Irish grown wool sector, which includes approximately 50,000 sheep farming families rurally nationwide as stakeholders.