Eddie Teague’s home just outside Lisnaskea
EVERY CHRISTMAS popular Lisnaskea pensioner, Eddie Teague (79) lights up people’s Christmas with a dazzling festive lights display featuring his home at Moughley and the surrounding grounds.
And, he does it for the benefit of the hundreds of admirers who drive out, in the dark evenings, to his home near Aghalurcher.
“You wouldn’t put them up if you didn’t want people to see them,” he explained.
Up until three years ago, when fierce storms tossed trees all over the place, Eddie’s Christmas lights display was much bigger, with cables wrapped around the mature trees in his garden. But, he lost 30, forcing him to having to make do with the smaller trees that survived.
“In a way I was glad because it had got so bad you could not see the trees from the bushes. I only have to light the smaller stuff now, and I don’t need as many lights as I used to, which is no bad thing, what with the price of electricity.”
A self-confessed self-taught electrician (“it’s not a big job as long as you are careful”), Eddie explains that the lines feeding the electricity to the trees and shrubs are permanently placed underground, ready for connection.
“The lights went on on Sunday night last. It took me a whole week, with a bit of help. I will keep them up till a week after Christmas.
“I feel that once Christmas is over, Christmas is over and the Christmas spirit has gone out of people.”
At that stage, Eddie collects and stores away the fittings until next time.
In the meantime, his handiwork is admired near and far.
“I’m told the lights can be seen from Cox’s Brae, between Lisnaskea and Donagh, where Tony McCaffrey lives, a couple of miles and more away.”
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