Michael O’Neill
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28 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 28 Nov
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Good morning from wonderful West Cork.
Delighted to be on the show.
West Cork is just a magical corner of the world you know and like we've it's all about the people you know we've unbelievable people and like everybody's up to something artistic or crafty and things like that like we we've a fantastic array of craft producers here in West Cork like from Timaleague there where your father was from we use a Milaga honey you know it's fantastic I do I have it at home
Yeah, you know, so, you know, it's a lovely, and then we have the beautiful scenery down here to inspire everyone as well.
So it really is a truly magical corner of the world, you know, and we love welcoming people and we'd like to see more people down in West Cork.
so yeah the ceremonies on site are growing the whole time you know it's becoming more of a trend you know and luckily here at Fernhill we're really well set up for ceremonies we've like we've A and B options with the weather and everything we've a beautiful outdoor wedding garden and we are like and then our backup option is a stunning we just built a beautiful event space for it and we have and we also this year we added an amazing bridal beauty suite for the for the
the the bride's getting ready in the morning at the wedding so they can do it all on site you know and have a fantastic day so and then also i suppose the weddings are getting a small bit smaller but and the brides are you know i think the style of the weddings are really getting better there are the autumn weddings particularly the colors they're picking and everything like that you know so kind of trends from instagram and things like that there the the the brides and the grooms are doing a fantastic job in fairness to them
I think that, you know, just getting out there and just booking the things that there's one of, you know, like I see some people like to get engaged and then they just don't go about it for months, you know, and they can be fierce competition for dates and not just for venues.
Like you have to match your band, beautician, photographer, all of these things.
So I think, look, if you can, like it is a daunting thing.
It's such an important day.
But if you can at all, just get out there and just book the things that there's only one of, if you know what I mean, like just to lock them in.
And then you can relax for months and, you know, enjoy it there.
And, you know, you'll have all your best suppliers lined up.
And, you know, I think that's my kind of top tip, really, especially because there's a huge amount of people get engaged over Christmas and there's a rush for suppliers and dates and all these things, you know.
So really try and get out and beat the crowd there if you can.
The food is just getting squeezed the whole time.
We all hear about the restaurants there and we're like a big restaurant there, 70% of our turnover will be food.
So this year we took the plunge and we built 16 new bedrooms just to diversify ourselves a bit and just kind of make it a bit more of a stable base in the business.
But, you know, we built 16 beautiful five star bedrooms.
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