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CHRISTMAS is fast approaching, so for all those who love sacred Christmas hymns or those who like the pop variety sung by crooners, there are concerts coming up to suit you.

CHRISTMAS CROONERS, a show featuring the Christmas songs of Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra, will be performed at the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday December 9 at 8pm

Cooking Workshop: Traditional Christmas Fare

Kilkenny Fire Brigade and Ambulance personnel are once again joining forces for the festive season and will be taking to the streets to sing Christmas carols for charity.

It’s been a bad week for pigs... and for anyone associated with the pig sector in this country.

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.

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”.

The festive season has well and truely kicked in, and Santa Claus is coming to town in just three nights’ time.