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Santa Claus made an emergency stop in Specsavers, Golden Island shopping centre this week, as an optical crisis threatened to disrupt his global present delivery schedule.

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.

For those interested in an unorthodox way to get into the festive spirit, while also keeping in shape for Christmas — an event coming up this weekend could be the perfect opportunity to do both.

The Moycullen Shopping Centre, An Cearnog Nua, will hold its first Christmas craft fair, which opens tomorrow, and runs up to Christmas Eve.

It is not every day that you arrive at a farm decorated with thousands of twinkling lights, meet Santa and his live deer Dancer and Prancer, or see an illuminated crib with a live cow and donkey, except of course when you visit Ireland’s Lapland at Glendeer Pet Farm.

The Galway City Museum will hold a public talk about Irish Seanfhocail, or proverbs, this Saturday at 2pm.

THE SCOTS and the Irish emigrated in droves to the United States throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, bringing their music, customs, and whiskey distilling techniques with them.

Throughout the month of May, Ballina Arts Centre will host Overlap, an exhibition of work by Majella Clancy. Overlap features work from Clancy’s ongoing investigation into painted space/place. Working from an archive of photographic imagery taken from various sources, she is interested in creating real and imagined spaces through the translation and mistranslation’ of the collected imagery.

Galway storyteller Clare Muireann Murphy will perform her new show On The Heels Of The Hound in the Unicorn Children’s Theatre in London this month.

THEY DON’T come from the Southern states of the USA, but when it comes to playing top quality bluegrass and American folk, London’s The Southern Tenant Folk Union are the real deal.