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Louise Walsh

Local ice cream rivalry brewing as GAA club coffee dock starts selling massive 99 cone

GAA club volunteers believe they have whipped the title of both the biggest and best value 99 ice cream cone in Ireland.

The volunteers at the Ratoath GAA Coffee Dock at the Sean Eiffe Park in Co Meath say they aren't 'flaking' the size of the monstrous ten inch cone, which comes with two flakes and is sold for the amazing price of just €3, which all goes to club funds. The club has proved competitive off the field as well, with the volunteers deciding they could rival the 'Big Boy' cone at Curran's Service Station, outside Dunshaughlin which has been making media headlines all week.

"It's all a bit of craic and all for the club," explained Tina Power who helps to run the recently opened Coffee Dock.

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"The girls and I just decided for the fun that we could do a better and bigger cone and so after a few failed attempts, we finally whipped it into shape and we had a great craic trying.

"Our cones are €2 anyway but if anyone wants a 'Big Defender', they can have one for just a euro extra. We had a summer camp here all week with over a hundred children so we did it for a bit craic for them too and they loved it.

"We opened the Coffee Dock a few months ago. We repurposed a 20ft container and the mothers all painted and decorated it and club members donated their time and supplies to kit it out. All proceeds from the Coffee Dock goes straight back into this club and it's manned purely by volunteers.”

Tina is mum to former Meath football player Brian Power, and she has already been sent pictures of the 'Big Defender' to his home in New York.

She laughed: “It's getting a big reaction in New York, alright. Sure they love everything extra big over there! As I said it's a bit of fun for everyone and we won't need Hawk Eye to spot this cone!"

It comes after another filling station in Meath claiming it sells Ireland’s biggest 99 ice cream went viral. Sean Gaughan has worked at Currans’ Service Station in Ross Cross, Meath for three years and said the monster cone started off as a competition between employees.

Describing how the cone came to be, Gaughan said: “It was just a matter of seeing who could make one bigger and we started selling them then as their own thing."

The cone is pulled by eye, and Gaughan said the biggest so far was a foot-long. The Big Boy, as its affectionately called, costs €4 with a flake and €3.60 without a flake.

“When you get it, you’ll understand why it costs so much,” he said.

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