Organisers want to bring Christmas market back to Eyre Square

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – A bierkeller planned for this year’s Christmas Market at Eyre Square will be cashless and you’ll need a digital Covid-19 certificate to get in.

Milestone Inventive has lodged an event licence application with the City Council for a market with up to 65 units for traders, a bar and ‘big wheel’.

The events company, which has staged the Christmas Market every year since 2011 – except for last year when it was cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions – is planning a return of the European-style market from November 12 to December 22.

In its application lodged at City Hall, Milestone Inventive outlines a whole host of measures it plans to take to limit the risk of spreading Covid-19 among staff, traders and patrons of the market.

The bar, or bierkeller, operated by Massimo on William Street West, will be in a marquee measuring 20 metres by 16 metres, with three two-metre entrances.

The capacity of the bar was not included in the application but it “will adhere to the public health regulations of the time”.

Among the measures taken as part of a risk assessment, are a cashless bar and contactless payments, as well as use of digital Covid certs.
This is a shortened preview version of this article. To read the rest of the story and for a proposal to bring an ice rink back to Leisureland, see this week’s Galway City Tribune. You can buy a digital edition HERE.