It’s that time of year again! A time for love and cheer, for family and friends. But, most importantly, Christmas is a time where we get the opportunity to sit down, watch a heap of films and scoff whatever foil wrapped goodies are within arm’s reach.
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Tis’ the season for giving and sharing kindness with one another. However, Brexit has made aspects of online shopping unnecessarily complex and ultimately, more costly than one would hope with extra import duties and customs fees. We don’t need that kind of stress during Christmas!
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Continuing a tradition since 2005 Mr Tilly’s Christmas Lights will once more illuminate the skies over Bath Avenue this festive season. Hope forged in loss, Liam Tilly’s altruistic act was inspired following the passing of his beloved wife Rita at only 58 years.
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Traditions bring us together by enabling us to participate in a sort of communal identity. They also are a link to the past; to what came before us and made us who we are. A good reason, then, to employ a healthy amount of distrust in our dealings with them. Take cabbages, for example. Oh yes.
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Sitting here with a very hot and delicious coffee, the aroma and taste brings me back (Proustian style) to Christmases long ago. And it got me wondering how the festive season has changed over the decades. Before the era of Xbox and gaming the big occasion was going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve,
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If you’re feeling down about the seasonal pantos being restricted, fear not because Dublin City Council have you covered. A Frosty Dawn, is a new collaborative musical and visual art experience coming to the Pepper Canister Church this mid-December,
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Be sure to get down to the RICC this Sunday, December 5th, for their Christmas Wonderland! It will run from 1pm to 3pm, the cost is €2 per child and all are welcome!
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Every charity needs a little help from the public around this time of year, and why not help a worthwhile cause while being Santa-tastic at the same time? On Sunday the 5th of December at 4pm, the Laurels Cycle Crew will set off on their way, cycling 20km to raise money for the brain injury charity Headway.
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A brand new Christmas song has been released by Friends of Peter McVerry Trust, to raise some very much needed funds for homeless services at this special, but difficult time of the year for some. The new song, “This Time of Year”, has been written by John Evans and performed by Alan Brereton,
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Are you craving a bit of joy in November, the type of holly-jolly joy that can only come from a Christmas market? If so, you’re in luck! On November 26th, The Ringsend Community Services Forum will be hosting an xmas fair, sponsored by Google and in partnership with the DCC,
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