“It’s Christmas”: Dublin City Council faced backlash online for its decision to call the light installations in Dublin Winter Lights rather than Christmas lights. We asked people in the city centre for their thoughts:
“More woke nonsense”
‘Erasure of Christmas?’
‘Winter lights’
The decision by the Dublin Town business group to coin a new moniker – the ‘Grafton Quarter’ – for Grafton Street and its environs attracted some controversy recently. However, most reporting missed what is, to me, the bigger story: the decision to ditch the much-loved Nollaig Shona Duit signage as part of the Grafton Street Christmas lights. […]