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Scenes from last year’s Krampusnacht at Neustift im Stubaital in Austria.
On the eve of St Nicholas’ Day (the 6th of December) drink-fuelled revellers dress up as the fearsome horned demon Krampus, shaking their cow-bell belts and running around scaring children to remind them what happens when they’re naughty at Christmas.
You’ve been warned.
Last night.
Leon writes:
Dublinatchristmas.ie has transformed Wolfe Tone Square in Dublins City Centre into a vintage festive fun fair. The vintage amusements including a chairoplane, a classic helter-skelter slide, a miniature carousel and game stalls will be illuminated in the evening. The fun fair will run until the 22nd of December….
Wolfe Tone Fun Fair (DublinatChristmas.ie)
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
Mount Trenchard outside Foynes, Co. Limerick, above, and Lycamobile
The Irish Refugee Council described the Mount Trenchard direct provision centre outside Foynes, Co. Limerick as “one of the worst in the system”.
It’s understood 50 men live in the centre where there are six to eight beds in some rooms.
They receive €19.10 a week and are not allowed to work.
If any readers would like to send care packages to the men in Mount Trenchard this Christmas – or indeed to any of the asylees in the direct provision centres in Limerick – they can send them to Limerick NGO Doras Luimní and the group will distribute them to the asylum seekers.
Aideen Roche, of Doras Luimní, said the people in the direct provision system would really appreciate phone credit as this is, by far, the one thing asylees spend most of their weekly allowance on, with Lycamobile being the most popular service used.
People can purchase Lycamobile SIM cards (with €10 of preloaded credit) and/or phone credit from Centra and SuperValu stores nationwide.
The other most popular items would be toiletries, such as deodorant, shower gel, etc. Snacks for eating in the centre outside of the set meal times would also be warmly received.
Doras Luimní’s address is Central Buildings, 51a O’Connell Street, Limerick.
Meanwhile, each asylum seeking child in Ireland receives €9.60 a week. There are approximately 1,500 children living in the direct provision system in Ireland.
In light of this, the Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland is hoping to deliver toys to children living in direct provision centres this Christmas. The group is appealing for people to send a new, unwrapped toy by December 17 and they will distribute them to the children.
The JRSI has two offices, one in Limerick and one in Dublin. The Limerick address is Della Strada, Dooradoyle, Limerick while the Dublin address is The Mews, 20 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1.
Would you like to help distribute care packages to asylum seekers in direct provision centres in your area this Christmas? Email broadsheet@broadsheet.ie with the subject line: Direct provision care packages.
Previously: ‘We Want To Be Heard By The Irish People’
Launch of 2014 Christmas toy appeal (Jesuit Refugee Service Ireland)
The Chirstmas Lights. They’re so on.
(Thanks Mr Hotspots)
Meanwhile…
Ah here.
JD writes:
Christmas lights in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone. Or Cockstown, as it’s now been renamed.
Madly in love culchies hipsters in London?
Pull the other one.
One in a series of many sentiment fuelled ads for Stella Artois leading into Christmas 2014.
Robbie Loughlin tweetz:
And here’s me thinking that the aul’ gift voucher would be grand…
Still is Robbie, still is.
http://youtu.be/TdiNZtbNFVo
Wait! What?
No chestnuts roasting on an open fire?
No Jack Frost nipping at your nose??
An Post writes:
Our An Post Christmas TV advert is about how we remember family and friends at Christmas. It highlights the fact that when we make the effort to write and post our Christmas cards, the emotional rewards for both sender and receiver are enormous.
The TV advert features the song ‘The Christmas Waltz’ and was shot in locations around Dublin and Wicklow.
The music track is called ‘The Christmas Waltz’, vocals by Lisa Hannigan and is available to purchase on Bandcamp. All profits raised from the sale of the track will go directly to Simon Community to help tackle homelessness in Ireland.
Now, giant Anglo-Saxon supermarket chains, that’s how you do a Christmas ad.
Update:
Link to Bandcamp is now working. Donate here.
Designer Fergus O’Neill of Grand Grand writes:
Introducing THE MAN BOX – FOR MEN (I was going to do a LADY BOX – FOR THE LADIES but the only image I could find of a woman smoking a pipe was Peig in full beard, by the fire, and I felt it didn’t connect with today’s young, clean shaven (probably fireless) ladies.) Anyways… The MAN BOX – FOR MEN It’s the MUST HAVE gift of the season for your MAN… be that your dad, brother, husband, boyfriend, grandfather, uncle, aunt or indeed uncle.
The Man Box – For Men €25 (Grand Grand)
Irish Made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish Made Stocking Fillers’. No fees, just a manly handshake.