Many tasks extend to fill the time available but if you start work on Christmas months in advance, it will take months

Jewellery, glass decanters and memorabilia for railway enthusiasts might make a nice gift under the tree this year

Limerick Mayor John Moran postponed the city’s Christmas market because proposals ‘were developed too late’

From bespoke facials and perfume workshops to luxurious spa days and hands-on masterclasses, these are the gifts sure to elicit an ‘ooh’ this festive season

Two outbreaks detected among flocks in counties Carlow and Meath ahead of busy Christmas period

Liam O Mochain’s film is alert to tragedies of being unhoused but remains open to reassuring sentimentality

Compulsory housing order issued for poultry and captive birds to minimise spread

With no cost-of-living supports, this is shaping up to be one of the most expensive festive seasons ever. We totted it all up

I bombard my friends with lengthy WhatsApp sermons on the latest ills befalling humankind. Now it’s your turn. Please be seated

Company handles roughly 20 million deliveries here a year with major sorting hubs in Cork and Dublin

Some houses had the front garden displays turned on weeks ago; some appear to have even dug up parts of their gardens

There’s a 10-week runway to Christmas and consumers need to start planning to avoid overspending

There is nothing quite like having a sixth year in the house to remind you how quickly the years go by

Tell Me About It: Should I confront my sister, tell her what I really think about her boyfriend? I worry about losing her, too

Our recycling rate has not improved in a decade: here’s some tips on how to dispose of our waste properly

The streamer’s cut version of It’s a Wonderful Life is an abomination – but perhaps not a woke bowdlerisation of the original

Some things should be ushered into the new year like a much-loved guest being shown into the good room. Other things should be discarded like Christmas cardboard refuse

Henderson didn’t believe in warming up before games. Famously, he never bothered to learn the names of team-mates or assistant coaches

A cosy evening by the stove lay before me dispatching messages to loved ones penned in my elegant poetic backhand

Julie had been diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer at 59-years-old. Early on, her oncologist had told us we’d be lucky to have five more Decembers together