Elaine Duffy, from Vintage Star fashion, says the new Christmas markets will help encourage people to shop local and support small businesses
About 15 traders, who are selling everything from scented candles to vintage fashion, have their fingers crossed for high footfall across the four-day event and hope it will encourage more people to shop local in the run up to Christmas Day. Ms Duffy hopes the market will become a regular occurrence - and not solely for Christmas - in the future.
"We have been really pleased with the crowds so far - the only downside is it's freezing, but you can't avoid that." "This has mainly been just a set up day for us, but already we are finding a lot of customers coming up to us," Mr O'Hagan said.
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