The best of Irish hospitality was on offer in the South West College, Dungannon Campus, training restaurant "Etcetera" recently as part of South West College's "Embedding Diversity" Project.

Many representatives from the multi-cultural society came along to experience the best of Irish food, music, history, culture and craic!. Live Irish music was provided by pupils from local schools courtesy of Dungannon District Council who were in attendance to provide historical and cultural information about the town and surrounding the borough.

The Mayor, Mr Barry Monteith, distributed shamrock to the visitors in advance of St Patrick's Day and the catering staff and students provided a sumptuous array of traditional Irish dishes. Finest local produce was provided for tasting courtesy of Genesis Bakery; Hughes Mushrooms & Quinfresh. The event was also supported by the Ulster Pork and Bacon Forum.

The evening was rounded off with a prizegiving ceremony for the winners of an Inter-Campus Writing Competition.

Local writer, Emma Hetherington presented a laptop to first prize winner, Alla Pozdakova, second prize, a portable DVD player, was presented to Anzelika Lukjanska and an I-Pod Nano went to Sidi Djalo who came in third place.

A great evening was had by all and Dungannon campus would like to thank everyone who attended on the evening as each person played a part in making it such a successful event.

Source: Tyrone Courier
Date: Wednesday, 19 March 2008