If we are to have Christmas this year, according to the World Health Organisation, it should be “risk free”. And they are worried, would you believe, that this might not be possible: THE WORLD HEALTH Organization (WHO) has said that avoiding family gatherings would be “the safest bet” over Christmas, insisting there is no zero-risk […]
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it will be “a different Christmas” in Ireland this year, but not to expect any visits from the Gardaí over the festive period.
Let’s face it: In one, very limited respect, this isn’t the worst idea in the world. January is everyone’s least favourite month, right? Maybe if we move Christmas, we can retain all the festive cheer of December, but keep the mince pies and mulled wine and Mariah Carey singing inappropriate lines about Santa Claus until […]
Christmas family celebrations will be broken up by officers if they flout lockdown rules according to police chiefs in the UK.
“Glory to God in the highest, and peace to people of goodwill”. So, according to the bible, spoke the angels to the Shepherds who journeyed to pay respects to the newborn Jesus in the hours after his birth. Though those words were recorded two millennia ago, and regardless of whether they are apocryphal or a […]
If you don’t get your kid a cell phone this Christmas, you’re a veritable Scrooge forcing your child to remain in the dark ages. But before you jump on the cell-phone band wagon, consider the pros and cons
A Christmas card featuring Karl Marx might have raised a few cheap laughs for Sinn Féin’s Fintan Warfield, but there was very little of good cheer about the father of socialism. Even apart from the fact that Marx was a militant atheist who hated both his own Jewish heritage – which he stereotyped much as […]
As the homeless crisis continues to spiral, a play centre in Meath is opening up on Christmas day to offer dinner to families who are in emergency accommodation.
Every Christmas season sees a re-igniting of the Christmas Wars, where some commentators and activists attempt to remove cribs from public spaces or replace Happy Christmas with Happy Holidays. One McDonald’s restaurant in Tennessee isn’t afraid to say where it stands on the issue. A photo of the windows of the restaurant covered with a large nativity scene […]
The ad is called “the gift that gives back”. Let us sincerely hope, for this woman’s sake, that what it gives him back is a divorce: My fellow men: If you only ever listen to one piece of advice, let it be this: Do not, under any circumstances, present your wife with an exercise bike […]