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Christmas is a time for decorating, celebrating and making your home feel that little bit more special. However, between buying presents and preparing for Christmas dinner, the cost of the season can quickly add up.

If you are running behind on your Christmas to-do list, or you just did not expect the time to move so fast, it is okay! You still can turn Christmas gift-giving around by following 'the five gift rule'. Said to be a minimalist gift-giving guideline that focuses on quality over quantity, you can take this rule and make Christmas truly special.

The countdown is on for one of Galway’s best-loved Christmas traditions, as sign-up opens for the COPE Galway Christmas Swim 2026.

Waterford is gearing up for a spectacular Christmas with Winterval 2026. Now in its 14th year, Ireland’s Christmas festival will bring weekends of festive entertainment to the city from November 13 to December 23, with headline gigs, Christmas markets, magical family experiences and seasonal celebrations designed to attract visitors from near and far.

Writing Christmas cards can sometimes feel like a tedious task, but when they are done right, they can almost mean as much as a gift does. If you are struggling with how to express yourself and the well-wishes you want to give, take it back to the basics and follow this simple guide to perfect your penmanship.

There are three keys to losing weight, diet, exercise and metabolism correction. Metabolism could be called the switch that controls everything else, and in many people this switch is off. Metabolism problems like slow thyroid, type 2 Diabetes, sluggish liver, hormone imbalances, PCOS, Endometriosis, infertility and digestive problems like constipation, IBS and Diverticulitis will limit or stop your weight loss, no matter how much dieting or exercise you do.

Christmas Trees as they came to be now started around the late 1400s into the 1500s. In what’s now Germany (was the Holy Roman Empire then), the Paradise Tree had more decorations on it (sometimes communion wafers, cherries and later pastry decorations of stars, bells, angels, etc. were added) and it even got a new nickname the ‘Christbaum’ or ‘Christ Tree’.

You might have heard about the German pickle stories where adults hang a pickle in a Christmas tree and the first child that finds it gets an extra gift. Now if you thought that was unique and culturally different, then you ought to know that Ukrainians put spider webs in their Christmas trees.

Look after the little things in life. Because one day the time will come when you realise they are the big things. And there is no better time to find this out than at this time of the year.

Choosing a real tree this festive season is central to celebrating this Christmas in a traditional manner that goes back hundreds of years.