A Waterford councillor wants to see a farmers market introduced to the city centre.

Sinn Féin’s Jim Griffin believes the Apple Market would be an ideal location for it.

He says Waterford can take inspiration from elsewhere.

He says a market similar to the one in Fermoy with local produce, and not setting up
a coffee shop in the market, that will take from the existing coffee shops, but a farmers market that is selling things like homemade butter,
and preserves and policed so that hawkers selling clothing are not allowed to set up.

Councillor Griffin says there’s an opportunity to fill the gap opened up after Carrick-on-Suir’s farmers market closed down last year.

He says there are days in Waterford City that there is no footfall and he believes there would be no objections from businesses because the Market
would not be competing with them. He says there is uncertainty with Brexit and we need to be selling fresh veg and meat and going back to the old
style butcher as well.

He says there’s potential to bring a communal kitchen in alongside a farmers market as well.

At the moment he says a lot of local companies are going to Thomastown to make their produce in a factory type kitchen.