Shoppers are being asked to swap high street brands for locally made gifts this Christmas in response to rising costs.
Gifted, Ireland’s biggest design fair, returned to the RDS yesterday just in time for the festive season. Visitors can browse craft and homeware gifts from over 500 vendors in the design fair.
CEO of the Design & Crafts Council Ireland, Rosemary Steen, spoke passionately at the launch on how the fair provides a lifeline to local traders, particularly as the cost of living crisis looms. She explained that many craftspeople were only beginning to recover from the pandemic when living costs began to soar.
