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Getting a taxi during the Christmas period will not be difficult this year as Big O taxis are staying open all through the holidays, including Christmas Day.

It’s time for the big Christmas debate. You know the one: is it too early to start the Christmas buzz in November?

Cooking Workshop: Traditional Christmas Fare

The renowned liturgical composer Marty Haugen will be in Galway tomorrow for a one-off music workshop for parish choirs and musicians, followed by a public prayer service.

If I've heard it once this holiday season, I've heard it a thousand times - "Well, this Christmas certainly won't be anything like it was last year! From recession and job losses to uncertainty with pensions, how am I supposed to enjoy Christmas?"

You know there is nothing in this world as important as the present you have yet to pick up for Christmas. Or the friend you just have to meet. Or the things you just have to do. Or the stuff for the turkey that your one without the hairnet on the telly said you just must have. And so on and on and on.

As a person who normally jumps on the seasonal bandwagon in the lead up to Christmas, my festive spirit seems to have waned this year — a sort of Chrimbo limbo. Perhaps I’m not alone, it's a feeling of guilt that has swept into our subconscious that in this current economic meltdown that our usual Christmas madness in this chastised economy will be a bit more subdued, and surprisingly I discovered the reason I was feeling this nonchalance was that consumerism had taken such a hold over the past few years, that I had unbeknown to myself equated consumerism with Christmas. Indeed, President Mary McAleese during a speech made in Arizona this week commented that “hands on our hearts that we were all consumed by that same element of consumerism”.

Roscommon Arts Centre and Music Network are delighted to announce a concert by The Callino Quartet on Wednesday April 8, at 8pm in Castlecoote House, Roscommon. The quartet will perform Joseph Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of the Saviour on the Cross.   

ON THURSDAY June 11 at 8pm, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Galway Baroque Singers will perform their annual concert in Leisureland.

Right, testing’ wan, two, three. Am I on, Michael? Right colleagues of the Cabinet. I want to welcome ye all here today for the final briefing on how ye are going to sell to the great unwashed the idea that Christmas is an overrated festival anyway and that there’s no harm in being miserable at Christmas. Emphasise that didn’t they have a great time in June at the Volvo Ocean Race, so there’s no point getting all mealy mouthed about a few cold auld days in the depths of winter.