Let There Be Lights!

Bloom!

h, the power of love, the giving spirit of Christmas, and the incredible influence of your snoreaway Guide…

Well, that’s what we like to tell ourselves anyway…

After last night’s breaking story that there would be no Christmas Lights on the main street of Greystones this year, due to a major budget shortfall, some very kind people have been busy at work overnight to ensure that, yes, there will be lights!

The decision to cancel the lights for this year wasn’t taken lightly. The simple fact that €16,000 was needed for a much-needed new set of Yuletide yowsas was just too much for the local kitty, or the contributing Greystones businesses, to handle.

Luckily, Stephen Garvey at Bridgedale Homes (the developers behind Marina Village down at the harbour) read the piece, and immediately got in touch with their man on the ground here, Ivan Gaine at Sherry Fitzgerald. Who promptly put the magic wheels in motion to make sure that Greystones’ Christmas would be every bit as sparkly and spectacular this year as any other.

In fact, with a whole new set of lights, Greystones might just outshine the moon and the stars this festive season, and, just as importantly, we’ll be shining bright for years to come.

And so it came to be that the lovable, huggable Ivan got in touch with the even-more lovable and huggable Guide to inform us that Stephen and the good people at Bridgedale were more than happy to contribute the €16,000 needed to light up our lives this Christmas.

Hurrah! Shine on, Stephen and Ivan, you crazy diamond geezers!

That takes the heavy load off of Greystones shops, who just have to contribute to the usual cost of getting those lights up and glittering.

Man, we just love it when a town pulls together like that…