The home-made fudge is selling hand over fist. Tomas Poil, from the Aran Islands, is doing a roaring trade. Shopping in the RDS at the Scottish Provident National Crafts Fair is hungry work. Upstairs Senator David Norris is entertaining a roomful of brokers. Eanna McCloskey, of Scottish Provident, wishes us all "a mutually beneficial year next year". Alice Ryan (13), a student at Muckross Park College, is looking for Christmas presents. She stops to listen to the carols being performed by the Piccolo Lasso choir under the baton of Ite O'Donovan. Listowel-based artist Patricia Kime is up to help out at Gone Potty, her daughter's stall.
Swiss handbag-makers Susanna and Dieter Hunerwadel are up from Bantry, manning their stall and chatting away in their native tongue. We say Gute Nacht and head into the night.