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BRENDAN GRACE is coming back to Galway in the New Year to play The Salthill Hotel on Monday January 6.

1. Manage your time well. There are five days left until the big day so if you still have a lot to do it is important that you have a plan. Otherwise the hours will just slip away and you will end up frazzled before you even get to carve the turkey. Begin by monitoring your time, this will help you pinpoint where you are wasting precious minutes. Then, make a list and decide when you are going to get these jobs done. Your list could include everything from buying last minute presents or icing the Christmas cake (or even making it if you were short of time) to ensuring the chimney is clean for Santa and the grocery shop is in hand.

A discussion seminar will take place in Murrisk regarding the development of a code of practice for Croagh Patrick on Thursday December 5 in The Tavern, Murrisk.

He may be busy making his list and checking it twice but this Saturday, November 30, Santa Claus and his helpers make their way from the North Pole all the way to Athlone Towncentre.

Yourells Hair Salon will be filled with festive cheer on Monday December 9, when it hosts its annual Christmas children’s evening where youngsters can get their hair trimmed for free in aid of the The Sunni-Mae Trust.

For the fifth year running, the Santa’s Charity Christmas Grotto will be open at Lakepoint Retail Park, Delvin Road, Mullingar.

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

Christmas’s most famed characters will soon be arriving at the five star g Hotel for the annual ‘Santa at the g’ experience, which promises a magical afternoon of festive fun for all the family.

A NEW book on stone circles in Ireland will be launched this evening at 6pm, by filmmaker, writer, and photographer Bob Quinn, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street.

Come away, O human child!