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Feeding You and Your Baby Right From the Start

Most of us know that eating a healthy, balanced diet will help to keep us fit and healthy and prevent disease in later life, but few of us think seriously about our food until we start to plan a pregnancy. That is when we realise that what we eat will affect not just our health but also the health of the baby.
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Organic + Paradise Garden

Organic Produce

Organic & Paradise Garden has been trading for 10 years in Cork English Market and now trades exclusively in Organic produce, supplying both the local food service industry and householders alike.

 


Organic produce is not as expensive as most people would think and if you truly do believe that you are what you eat, its a small price to pay for a healthy body and mind.

 

The emphasis here is not on dry goods and the tired notion that organic food has to be boring food. Here, you are encouraged to try a positively exotic blend of star fruits and papaya, mango and lychee. Food is fun, you are what you eat, so be exciting and enjoy your well-being!

Some of the great offerings from Organic & Paradise Garden include, but are most definitely not limited to: Turkish Delight, Dried Figs, Apricots, Prunes, Pineapple, Papaya, Mango, as well as a large selection of nuts & raisins.
Certified by the IOFGA (Irish Organic Farmers & Growers Association)

So get yourself in there, its never too late to discover that those funny looking fruits are as tasty and refreshing as a cool glass of water on a dry, hot summers day!

 

Past & Present

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New Entrance
New entrance New entrance to Prince's-Street Market....


The entrance to the new Prince's-street market... will henceforth rank amongst the principal buildings in our city. It is certainly as handsome a structure as exists in the three kingdoms having the same object, and reflects the greatest credit on our city Architect who designed it, and superintended its construction, and on Mr Walsh, the builder, who carried out the design. The only fault that can be suggested, not in the immediate work itself, but in connection with it, is the difficulty of getting a good view of the front in its position, in a narrow street, which is also one of the busiest thoroughfares in Cork....

The front is a well-designed and graceful structure which under any disadvantages of position must look well. In the centre is a lofty entrance or gateway, twenty feet high and ten feet broad. This being the main purpose of the erection is of course the part to which everything else is subservient. Use and profit, however, are not neglected in the accessories, which consist of two exceedingly handsome houses, especially designed for shops, one at either side of this entrance, the whole forming a large building designed artistically, and erected in a workmanlike manner. There is no particular style adhered to in the design, but in it a general resemblance to buildings built in brickwork after the Lombardo-Italian school, prevails. The front is chiefly constructed of red brick, tastefully varied however in several parts by other colours. For instance, the large arch over the entrance is in black and white brickwork, and the mouldings are of the limestone of this district. The whole building stands on a base of two feet and a half of handsomely cut limestone. The houses on each side are divided vertically on the lower storey into three divisions by two pillars, one division acting as a doorway, and the other two serving as windows. The second storey of each house is in four divisions created by three handsome pillars, and the top storey in five divided by pillars. Over the central arch is a large semi-circular light very ornamentally finished, and a little above this is a circular space for a clock, should it ever be deemed advisable to put one there. The whole is surmounted by a capping of limestone, consisted of a series of corbals, each carrying a semi-circular arch over it, the spaces under the arches being deeply cut, so as to throw a deep and effective shadow - an arrangement that must be noticed and admired by anyone looking at the front from Princes-street. The keystone of the large arch is of limestone. On the whole the front is one of striking beauty.

Passing in through the archway, the visitor stands in a corridor thirty feet deep, the shape of the arch, at each end of which there will be exceedingly handsome gates; inside the outer one will be an entrance from this long archway or corridor into the houses at either side. Inside the corridor lies the market. As is well known, the orginal object of the change in the market was to provide protection for the dealers carrying on their sales there of vegetables, fowl, fruit, fish, etc. That this object has been realised with the utmost regard to utility, and yet in the most perfect compliance with the rules of good taste and effect, will be evidenced to the most casual visitor to the market.

1986 Fire
1986 FireAnother Fire struck the market on Monday night the following is from The Cork Examiner on Tuesday January 7th 1986. The price of the paper was 0.45p
New Market after fire
Restoration after Fire
1980 Fire
1980 Fire
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