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Mount Juliet’s festive ‘Christmas Village’ is to ensure a magical Christmas experience for all the family when it arrives to the grounds of the estate for two weeks in the run up to Christmas this year.

The leaves are changing colour. But we are so busy rushing here and there it’s easy to miss how nature moves on. Even from our office here on Market Square we have a little slice of autumn outside our window. It is nice to be based in the heart of a town and not be excluded from the changing of the seasons.

Galway County Council is accepting Christmas trees for recycling during normal working hours up until tomorrow, Saturday January 15 at Canal Drive, Ballinasloe. Please note this service is for the domestic sector only.

My great aunt Annie Dunne spent the last few years of her life in a nursing home, on Longford Place in Monkstown. It was just beside where we lived, on Longford Terrace. It was literally a stone’s throw. She was a precious person for me, I had known her as a little boy in the townland of Kelsha, near Kiltegan in Wicklow, where she had shared the little subsistence farm of her cousin Sara Cullen. My sister Siuban and I had been sent down there for a whole summer, lengthening into autumn, while our parents tried to set themselves up in London.

Family pressures at Christmas

In the bleak midwinter snow and frost last Saturday afternoon, the remaining residents of Loughloe House and their families enjoyed Christmas music and festivities in the dining room of the nursing home.

When it comes to Christmas shopping, who would have thought teachers are the biggest penny-pinchers, that teenagers hate the whole experience, and that men are bigger planners than women. But predictably, people who work in the charity and volunteer sector are the most generous Christmas shoppers and pensioners are the greatest planners with lots of time on their hands!

There’s nothing like winter on a farm, and at Turoe Pet Farm, Loughrea they have created a magical festive feel for you and your family to enjoy in the run-up to Christmas.

If a quiet Christmas does not sound like your cup of tea, wrap up and step out to the Welcome Inn Hotel and party your way through a lively Christmas into a vibrant New Year. Every night of the holiday season from this weekend on will see at least one of the hotel’s three party venues (Club Mantra, The Lounge and The Fáilte Suite) open for business. With choice like that, you are sure to find something perfect for your taste.

On Saturday December 18 from 1pm to 4pm, go along to the Ballina Family Resource Centre where you can sample a little bit of Christmas as experienced by different communities who are residing in Ireland.