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Paula Murphy from Murphy’s Florist will hold a Christmas floral design workshop in Áras Inis Gluaire on Friday December 11 from 6pm to 8pm .

Although it's the season of goodwill in Ballinrobe, its the time to be truly Wicked by indulging in one of the fresh homemade desserts from Wicked Bakery and Coffee Shop in Church Lane.

Lanigans bar is really getting into the Christmas spirit this year.

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”.

As the Christmas shopping frenzy draws to a close for another year, Athlone Towncentre will be serving up a real treat for shoppers this weekend. 

Santa Claus is coming to town, and as part of his warm up for Christmas he has moved into his very own log cabin at the Briarhill Shopping Centre in Ballybrit. Santa will be at Briarhill from December 8 through to December 23 when he will return to Lapland to make the final checks for Christmas Eve.

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

The Galway Filipino Irish Community will hold its annual Christmas Party on Thursday December 17 at the Westwood Hotel, Newcastle, from 7pm.

I always thought that the Christmas tree, which gives a special pleasure in any home, was a Victorian thing, introduced by Prince Albert in the early 19th century. But reading Niall Mac Coitir’s fascinating book Irish Trees - Myths, Legends and Folklore* I learned that legend has it that the idea of the Christmas fir tree first came to Martin Luther. After walking one Christmas Eve under a clear winter sky lit by 1,000 stars, he set up for his children a tree with countless candles as an image of the starry heaven whence Christ came. However, the first known record of a modern Christmas tree comes from Strasbourg in 1605 when fir trees were set up and decorated.

Begin your Christmas shopping at Claremorris Indoor Market, Unit 12, Lakeside Retail Park, Claremorris, where you can browse two floors of stalls stocking jewellery, vegetables, toys, planting, tools, Christmas wreaths, Fair Trade clothing, outdoor clothing, and much more!