Fun walk to help support young people

In excess of 100 people will take to the road to walk the 8km picturesque trip from The Red Fox Inn to St Finian's Holy Well in Glenbeigh this Easter Monday.

The day will be in support of Killorglin Family Resource Centre and the therapies provided for children and young people including play therapy, counselling, CBT and art therapy. Killorglin Family Resource Centre provided in excess of

500 hours of therapies to children and young people in 2022 with minimum funding.

"It is very relevant that this year's walk is in aid of support for young people given the traditional healing powers of the well," Margaret Wrenn, FRC Manager, said.

"We are very grateful to St Finians Well committee for choosing the family resource centre this year and the support of the local community for organising this event."

The walk to the well will start from The Red Fox at 1pm, with registration open from 12 noon. A bus will be provided for anyone wishing to attend the Mass at 2pm at the well who is finding the walk difficult. This event is also an ideal opportunity for running groups to participate in. There will be music, children's activities, grand raffle and refreshments at The Red Fox after the walk. Registration is €10 per adult, children free.

Work will begin at 6am when the giant pan and all the utensils are brought to the town square as part of the annual ritual which is celebrating 50 years this year. Then around mid-morning following a parade, volunteers will break the eggs and the pan - which has a large telephone pole as a handle - will be heated up. Two pounds of salt, a pound of pepper and a bucket of herbs will then be added.

As part of getting the recipe just right, a taster will be assigned to make sure the omelette has enough salt and pepper. There could be up to 5,000 waiting in the crowd watching on who will be handed plates of the omelette with French bread.

The team of volunteers - members of the Confrérie Mondiale des Chevaliers de l’Omelette Géante de Bessières - the World Brotherhood of the Knights of the Giant Omelet, will be dressed in yolk-coloured yellow shirts and bright white pants.

According to local legend this fun tradition began when Napoleon and his army were travelling near Bessières. It's belived that a local innkeeper cooked him such a delicious scrambled egg that the next day, the Little Corporal requested that all the eggs in the village be gathered and made into a whopping omelette for his soldiers.

Another version is that local teenagers came together and cooked a giant omelette close to the Tarn River and fed the village.