Trails and tales return for the Fore Seasons!

That it’s a bit colder and the days are a bit shorter is not reason enough to stop walking the trail in Fore. So says Fore Heritage and Amenity Group chairman, Cllr Frank McDermott, who is working on keeping the trail hale and hearty for the winter.

“Thank you to Westmeath County Council’s Community section, who have awarded us €1500 for an autumn and winter festival. We have adopted a brilliant idea from Rosemary Coffey at one of our Pride of Place meetings - to consider Fore Seasons. So we are giving the trail a few autumn and Halloween tales to liven it up.

"The coffee shop and Ned’s Forge are open for business and so is The Abbey House and The Seven Wonders, and our newest addition, Fore Distillery – so you can be sure of getting something nice when you come out for the walk.

“The bottom line is,” says Frank, “that its been a really difficult set of months and nearly years and our looped walk out here in Fore has been an important part of many people’s healthy mind body and soul.

"The likes of Jane in the coffee shop and Sarita in Ned’s Forge and now Rosemary and Ita since the bars opened meant that people could congregate and meet outside and it was a wee bit of normality.

"We don’t know what’s ahead, but we want people to know that the trail and the businesses in Fore will still be going so that people are always welcome to walk, and talk out here.”