Be inspired in your retirement in Cork this September
The largest ever 50 Plus Show, a lifestyle event for people 50 and over will be held in Cork next month for its 20th edition.
It’s returning to the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa on 10 & 11 September with over 70 demonstrations, displays and exhibits.
Among this year’s headline attractions will be entertainer Sandy Kelly who will perform a selection of her favourites, and RTÉ legend Michael Lyster who promises interviews with a mix of high profile Cork personalities.
Consumer rights & property expert Sinead Ryan, known to many from her columns in the Irish Independent and ‘The Home Show’ on Newstalk will be speaking and available to answer questions on areas such as inheritance, the Fair Deal Scheme and recent changes in the rules to renting out properties.
And for those wishing to improve their digital skills – including the internet, email and mobile devices – Vodafone Hi Digital will be on hand to provide easy-to-follow advice.
Other features of the show’s programme will include proven attractions such as cookery demonstrations, keep fit lessons, personal finance advice, tax, pensions, entitlements and legal advice from experts. For the more creatively inclined, there will be 5 different craft workshops each day where visitors can try their hand at painting or crocheting and take home their work with them – all for free.
And for collectors of stamps, coins and banknotes international specialist Mike Kelly will be on hand to give valuations and pay for your collections.
There will also be stands providing information on: health, home and abroad holidays, join a club or society, recruitment, volunteering, home energy, home security and mobility aids.
A free shuttle bus service is being organised from the city centre to the venue – for full details go to www.seniortimes.ie. The hotel has also over 300 free car parking spaces and is a 10 minute walk from Little Island Train Station.
The 50 Plus Show will take place the Radisson Hotel, Little Island from 10am until 4pm on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 September.