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And there’ll be no Christmas turkeys, warn farmers THE farmers who brought chaos to Dublin have warned of more disruption if their demands are not met.

They are also threatening to blockade supermarket distribution centres in the runup to Christmas.

“There will be no turkeys for Christmas,” said one farmer, as tractors began to leave after two days of protest which shut streets near Leinster House and caused widespread disruption.

The farmers, who are not represented by any organisation, have a wide range of demands,

some of which are beyond the control of Government.

They were seeking an immediate end to injunctions against two farmers by a meat factory, arising from an earlier protest. The injunctions have now been lifted.

They also want improved beef prices, an exemption from carbon tax and more assistance for rural Ireland.

Tipperary farmer Daniel Long, one of the five representatives who met Agriculture Minister Michael Creed, said they wanted progress on these issues or

farmers would blockade major supermarket distribution centres in the run-up to Christmas.

Fellow protester and farming contractor James Geoghegan, said: “There will be no turkeys for Christmas. If we block them down, don’t blame us. It will be because there has been no progress.”

John Dallon, another of the five representatives, said the minister was told “we’d be back on December 15 to hit the distribution centres”.

“I know it’s coming up to Christmas but if we don’t get

what we want, that’s what we’re going to have to do,” he warned Asked if it was acceptable for the farmers to lock down a major section of Dublin, Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said people had a right to protest, even if the protests caused disruption.

Asked about threats of blockades and cutting off food supply routes into Dublin, he said: “They should be very careful of their vocabulary and the way they speak and their pronouncements because that just inflames the situation.”

Conor and Nicola Duggan at the launch of Bray’s Harbour Bar’s Single Cask Release with Powers Whiskey. Pic: Joe Keogh. Lots more pix inside

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newsinbrief Pussycat Dolls back and heading here

The Pussycat Dolls are set to go on tour for the first time in more than a decade. They will play the 3Arena in Dublin on April 5.

Bus is the nearest public transport

More than 400,000 Dubliners live within 2km of a Luas station, the Central Statistics Office has found. A bus stop is the closest public transport option for 93% of the population. For 5% of people, a train station is the closest .

Dubliners live 3km from an A&E department, the CSO found. Across the country, the average distance from A&E is 20km.

€60,000 haul for a dog called Blue

Revenue detector dog Blue helped officers find drugs worth €60,000 in Dublin Airport this week. The 1kg ectasy find was made in the transport hub on Monday, November 25.

Costa Coffee apology In a recent edition of Dublin Voice, we inadvertently printed a voucher: “Treat a friend to a free coffee at Costa”. However, the voucher was out of date and was unable to be used. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Singer Andrea Corr with patient Harry Sheill and nurse Brid Ryan launching Light Up A Life at Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services in Harold’s Cross. Pic: Bryan Brophy

600 apartments planned at Liam Cosgrave home

PLANS HAVE BEEN lodged for almost 600 apartments in south Dublin on lands previously owned by former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave.

The application to build 590 apartments at lands on Scholarstown Road in Knocklyon, Dublin 16, has been submitted to An Bord Pleanála by Ardstone Homes Ltd. The proposed Strategic Housing Development (SHD) consists of 480 build-to-rent

apartments and 110 build-tosell units.

The build-to-rent units will be a mix of one- and twobedroom apartments spread across eight blocks up to six storeys in height. The buildto-sell units will be a mix of two- and three-bedroom apartments spread across nine duplex blocks three storeys in height.

The proposed development also includes space for a gym, creche as well as retail

and café units and car park spaces.

The development will cover an area of over five hectares of land once owned

by Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Liam Cosgrave. The proposed development includes the demolition of two dwellings on the land: a bungalow named “Beechpark”, which was the home of Mr Cosgrave, and a two-storey dwelling named “Maryfield”.

Let it snow ... we’re on a winner

DUBLINERS are dreaming of a White Christmas - and hoping to cash in on snow on December 25.

A flurry of bets in recent days has persuaded Boylesports to put the odds of Christmas snow at Dublin Airport at 9/2 - down from from 14/1 just a few days earlier.

The new odds were announced as days of persistent rain gave way to much colder weather.

And, for once, shivering punters hope the cold spell will laast.

Sarah Kinsella from BoyleSports said: “Our traders are taking no chances and have started to freeze the odds on a White Christmas.

“Punters latched onto the odds of snow falling at Dublin Airport on December 25 and its now a 9/2 chance.

“Belfast is also getting excited about its chances of snow with the odds trimmed into 15/2 from 10/1.” .

Pay rise will add €1.5m to bill for Dublin

DUBLIN’S city and county councillors are likely to be given a pay rise of around €8,000 each next year.

City and county councillors are paid €17,060 a year, in addition to unvouched expenses of between €2,286 and €2,667, and vouched expenses up to €5,000.

An 18-month Governmentcommissioned report by Senior Counsel Sara Moorhead, due soon, is expected to recommend an €8,000 increase to the payment of all councillors.

If approved it will add more than €1.5 million to the cost of running Dublin’s four councils.

There are 63 City councillors; Fingal and Dun LaoghaireRathdown each have 40 councillors and South Dublin has 26 councillors.

There are 949 councillors in Ireland, meaning that the predicted pay rise will cost taxpayers more than €7.5 million a year.

Ms Moorhead has been working on the report since June 2018 after repeated concerns were raised over pay levels among councillors and whether they should be increased.

The report was initially due in March. However, it has been delayed until the end of the year, due in part to the complicated and delicate public nature of the issue.

Government sources said the final report is likely to recommend pay rises for city and county councillors in the region of €8,000 a year.

Minister of State for Local Government John Paul Phelan has stipulated that councillors’ pay increase calls will have to compete with rival public sector demands.

He told the Oireachtas Committee on Local Government that any increase must first be discussed at wider public sector pay talks and be balanced against competing demands.

TDs and Senators on the committee challenged Mr Phelan on whether he would commit to pay increases for councillors.

He said that he, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and public expenditure minister Paschal Donohoe “agree that councillors shouldn’t be the worst paid people in the room when it comes to local authority staff.”

120 new jobs as company grows AN Irish company is adding 120 new jobs at its offices in Dun Laoghaire and New York.

LetsGetChecked offers home health tests including for general health, sexual health, cancer screening and fertility checks.

It said it would create 70 jobs in Dun Laoghaire and a further 50 jobs internationally with plans to expand the team to 250.

This would nearly double their global headcount by the end of 2020.

The new roles include positions in engineering, technical, nursing and customer solutions

teams, the company said.

The technical roles span functions across software engineering, developing, design, devops, security and compliance, it added.

Peter Foley, the CEO and founder of LetsGetChecked, said the new jobs will help the company build on its success ”These new jobs will help us as we expand internationally to further develop our technology platform to give people more control over their personal health and wellbeing,” Mr Foley said.

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White-water rafts to make waves at IFSC

WORK could begin next year on a white-water rafting attraction in the IFSC. It is intended as a tourist attraction and for use by sports clubs but will also be made available to Dublin Fire Brigade and other emergency services for training.

It will have an inner reservoir of water surrounded by the white-water rafting course.

Cafes already located along the CHQ building will overlook the attraction on George’s Dock, adjacent to the Irish Immigration Museum.

The dock has been used to host Christmas markets and Spiegeltent concerts at Oktoberfest, but has been largely derelict for some time.

The team behind Smart Cities, an arm of Dublin City Council, has produced a 3-D vision of what the attraction will

look like. Jamie Cudden, head of the Smart Cities initiative said offering a visualisation of the project will “create a more informed discussion” on what the project will mean for local businesses and residents.

“This is a really exciting project for the docklands and I think a lot of people are talking about animating the area, and this water animation strategy brings a lot of life to this,” he said.

“It’s something different as well, and shows the combination of all these things that will be great additions for the area and the local amenities.”

The cost of developing the white-water rafting course is estimated to be around €22 million and will be provided through a combination of grants and council funding.

It is expected to take up to 18

months to build the facility.

The development requires approval from Dublin City Council.

Councillors from the area have supported it and several clubs and members of the public have made submissions in its favour.

David Henry, of the Silver Bridge Kayak Club said: “I am a recreational kayaker and in the past have had to travel to Britain to avail of similar facilities in preparation for expeditions further afield.

Such a scheme would be invaluable for local and national recreational water-sport users.”

If approved, it is planned to operate the facility from early morning until around 10pm at night, with part of the daily timetables blocked out for fire and emergency services training.

Garvan Rigby, Gordon D’Arcy and Walter Hegarty at the launch of Christmas FM. Pic: Julien Behal

Council may recycle its street bins plan

COUNCILLORS are planning to give recycling bins a second chance on the streets of Dublin.

The bins, which have segregated sections for paper, plastic and aluminium cans, were tried out at two city centre locations in 2018, but cross-contamination made them impracticable.

The council is now considering reintroducing the

bins as part of its latest litter management plan.

It is hoped that the move will encourage recycling at street level from members of the public, and a pilot programme is currently being developed in partnership with industry and a number of NGOs. The council envisages trialing the new measure before next summer, although the

Cull ‘is needed’ to keep deer herd healthy

AN animal rights group has objected to the latest cull of deer in the Phoenix Park.

“They’re just bringing in shooters and making money off the carcasses,” said Bernie Wright of the Alliance of Animal Rights. “There should be more people with empathy for these animals to stand up for them.”

She suggested using contraception to stop the deer from breeding .

But the Office of Public Works (OPW), which has responsibility for the park, said there is currently “no contraceptives licensed for use in free-living deer in Ireland”.

It added: “The Irish Deer Society, British Deer Society and the Deer Initiative of England and Wales fully endorse humane culling as best practice in deer herd management and the OPW is an expert manager of enclosed wild deer herds.”

Twenty-five deer were shot in the November cull.

The period between October and November is the rutting season for deer, when mating activity reaches its peak.

The cull around this time is

used to curb population growth.

The cull was carried out under licence from the National Parks and Wildlife Services in conjunction with the School of Biology and Environmental Science, UCD, and was overseen by a qualified vet.

There are thought to be around 600 wild fallow deer in Phoenix Park and the OPW said a failure to control the population of the animal, which has no natural predator in Ireland, would have a detrimental impact on the surrounding environment.

“If animals were not removed, food would become scarce and more animals would ultimately suffer,” a spokesperson said.

“Without population control there would be other welfare issues such as low body fat, malnutrition and high incidence of death from exposure to cold.

“Attempting to maintain too many deer within a restricted park area would soon lead to a build-up of parasites and other pathogens causing disease in the deer.”

There have been deer in the park since 1662

locations where it would do so have not yet been identified.

Green Party councillor Michael Pidgeon said the idea was still in its early stages, but had already proved a success in other cities.

“We’ve seen this elsewhere so hopefully it can work here,” he said. “It’s the first meeting of the committee next week, so we’ll see what happens then.”

Help for schools in battle with drugs

TEACHERS are being offered a new programme to help them make their students aware of the risks associated with alcohol and drugs.

‘Know the Score’ was developed in partnership between public health and education professionals, with input from teachers and young people.

Topics addressed include: *Cultural awareness of attitudes towards alcohol; *Impact of alcohol on the body and the brain; *Influences of alcohol branding and sponsorship; *How to provide emergency care; “I am delighted to launch this excellent resource,” said Health Minister Simon Harris.

‘Know the Score’ is aimed at 15-18 year olds. A training programme for teachers will commence next Spring and the Department of Education has provided substitution cover. Schools interested in attending or viewing the resource should visit www.hse. ie/knowthescore

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Welcome on the mat for refugee family

A GROUP OF women has raised €25,000 to house a Syrian refugee family in Dublin for the next two years.

Under the community-led initiative, the first of its kind here, the family of four will move into a two-bed apartment in Rathgar .

The move has been aided by the work of twelve mothers who met at a childrens’ playground .

The integration of the family was facilitated by the Red Cross and approved by the Department of Justice.

“The difference between this and Direct Provision is that it’s organic,” said one of the women, Anna Kierans “It’s people showing they are prepared to open their arms and help a family integrate “ The Syrian family is currently in Lebanon and will arrive before Christmas.

“We’re due to have a Skype call with the family next week.

They have two boys aged 4 and 6 and up until now they wouldn’t have known where in the world they were going to end up,” said Ms Kierans.

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Locals asked to dig deep as Alzheimer day washed out

The generous people of Dublin are being asked to dig deep after the Alzheimer Society of Ireland’s (ASI) annual flag day collection was washed out due to recent heavy rain.

ASI has reported that collections were down 50% in some areas due to the deluge which soaked the country during the week.

Although teams of volunteers still hit the streets to

sell Memory Ribbons for €3, the poor weather conditions meant that fewer people left their homes. November 21, should have been ASI’s biggest fundraising day and the shortfall could affect services for the 55,000 people living with dementia in the country.

Members of the public are now being asked to use the Text to Donate facility instead by texting Memory to 50300 to donate €4, buy a Memory

Snowflake ad wins Oscar from Piers

Ribbon for €3 from the online shop, or make a donation at alzheimer.ie “Dementia has a devastating impact on families,” ASI’s CEO Pat McLoughlin said.

“Services like home care, day care and support groups help thousands of people to cope.

The ASI only receives 58% funding from the HSE and needs to fundraise €3.3m every year just to keep services going.

OSCARS Bar in Smithfield can expect a visit from celebrity broadcaster Piers Morgan.

The British breakfast television presenter (right) was much taken by an ad the bar posted for a “full-time snowflake” to join its staff.

“Next time I’m in Dublin, one of my favourite cities, I will go to the Oscars café bar,” he said.

“And I urge all like-minded souls who believe in free speech and who are anti-snowflake to go and support them .”

The ad on Oscars’ Facebook page was prompted by criticism on social media. It said it would only be accepting “selfentitled, over sensitive” people for the role who “take offence from the most innocuous things imaginable”.

It said anyone offended by the advertisement was “the perfect fit”. *Qualifications for the snowflake role included: *Extensive experience in using a smart phone required - the more time you spend on it while

working, the better.

Taking selfies throughout the working day - it doesn’t matter what the situation you better get that picture.

Thorough knowledge of all social media - if it’s up and coming and your like-minded friends can complain on it, you need to know about it.

Experience required: *Absolutely no resilience whatsoever *No willingness to consider controversial or opposing views *Over confidence and naive ambitions

PLANS to turn a tourist hostel into a shelter for rough sleepers have brought protests from residents of the south inner city.

The Peter McVerry Trust is scheduled to take over Avalon House in Aungier Street at the end of January.

But the Trust’s plan to make it Ireland’s largest hostel for rough sleepers was met with anger at a meeting attended

by Peter McVerry’s deputy CEO, Brian Friel, and Brendan Kenny, deputy chief executive of Dublin City Council.

Cllr Mannix Flynn, who was at the meeting, said he would take a High Court action to prevent the hostel from opening, saying it would have a negative impact on the community.

“I’m sick and tired of being railroaded,” he said. “Stop trying to blackmail us in relation to those that are unfortunate enough to be on our streets in an awful state..”

Locals marched on the hostel after the meeting and The Irish Times reported that businesses in the area would back the High Court action.

The Journal.ie reported that the vast majority of more than 100 people at the meeting expressed opposition towards the hostel, although some said they supported more housing and smaller emergency accommodation for homeless families.

Multiple objections were raised about a lack of consultation

between the council, Peter McVerry and the local community.

Others expressed concerns about the number of homeless hostels already in the areaand the hostel’s proximity to nearby primary schools.

Mr Kenny told the meeting that the Dublin Region Homeless Executive required 300 additional emergency bed-spaces, and said that the opportunity to open a hostel at Avalon House to help meet demand for its services could not be turned down.

“If we don’t get accommodation for people or more beds for people, more and more single people will become dead on the street,” he said.

Hostel for homeless bid rejected

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My Christmas SOS: Save Our Shops

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he Christmas shopping splurge marks a new round of hostilities in a war that has been raging for a decade or more over the future of the retail industry. It has been a pretty one-sided affair, with store after store waving the white flag while online traders occupy their territory.

Well, not literally. For online traders do not have a territory, just an office somewhere and warehouses sited near motorways.

So, as the big stores retreat from what the British call the high street, they are replaced by bargain-basement shops, fast food outlets, vaping shops and hairdressers.

Often they aren’t replaced at all. In Britain, the number of empty shops is at a record high. In the past year, big chains such as Toys R Us, Maplin and Poundworld closed their doors. The womenswear chain, Bonmarché, has recently gone into administration and Mothercare is shutting its shops in Britain. Monsoon, Topshop,

Michael Wolsey

and Debenhams are fighting for survival.

The trend has been better documented in the UK than in Ireland but the impact is much the same. Many of these British retailers have shops here and our native stores are suffering from the same pressures.

We really don’t need statistics to prove the point. Just take a walk through any provincial town and you will see empty shops, even in the main streets.

And it is not just our stores that are vanishing. The work of travel agents, insurance brokers, record shops and even bookmakers, is being conducted

Rachel Kelly from The Donaghies Community School, Grange, at the We Are All Scientists pop-up exhibition at the CHQ Building for Science Week. Pic: Julien Behal Lots more pics inside online and they no longer need downtown premises.

The bulk of domestic banking can now be conducted from a computer or a phone, and banks are abandoning their buildings.

They are being replaced by nail bars and noodle shops, if they

are replaced at all, and their staff are working from remote locations.

There is nothing wrong with nail bars and noodle shops, or the coffee shops that have opened on every corner. But they rely for their existence on

office staff and the passing trade of shoppers. Take away the offices and the shoppers and our town centres will die.

The first pressure on downtown stores came from out-of-town shopping centres but they too are now in trouble.

According to Forbes magazine: “Nearly 15% (of UK shopping centres) are 10 to 40% vacant ... and 3.4% are more than 40% empty, a threshold that signals the beginning of the death spiral.”

Again, you can verify this trend in Ireland just by walking around a few centres. You will see vacant premises and space that was once occupied by high-end retailers now filled by charity shops and seasonal popups.

The retail business has always been subject to the whims of the consumer. But the present trend is different because it threatens to change not just the nature of our shopping but the nature of our towns.

We may end up with soulless town centres ringed by halfempty shopping malls.

Is that what you want? No?

Then think carefully before your next bout of online shopping. If we don’t use our real shops we will lose them.

For me, it is no contest. I like shops where you can see the product, feel the material, try on the clothes.

Support for this view has come from an unlikely source ParcelHero, a British company that delivers a lot of the products bought online.

“Retailers with a portfolio of stores should seek to make the most of these great assets,” said its Head of Consumer Research, David Jinks .

He is encouraging customers to buy online and then go to their local stores to pick up items or return them.

He calls it BOPUS – Buy Online, Pick Up in Store – and hopes it “will result in increased sales for many of our still muchloved town centre stores”.

I can’t see what advantage this would have for Mr Jinks’s courier service but I hope he is predicting a trend. The alternative is empty main streets and, ultimately, no main streets at all.

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Mesmerising Murmurations

book of the week

with Justin Ivory

Starling Murmuration (Photo Wikicommons William Baxter) Picture the scene. It is dusk on a winters’ evening. As the last light begins to fade in an otherwise featureless and lifeless skyline a strange phenomenon starts to unfold.

Wave upon wave of black shapes arrive from all directions to coalesce into one huge, living, breathing entity. And so one of the most breath taking and awe inspiring performances you are ever likely to witness begins.

The gigantic shadow creature begins an aerial, shape-shifting ballet. Constantly twisting and turning, ebbing and flowing so the dance continues. But look closer and you will see that the creature is not a single entity but consists of thousands, even millions of black specks moving in unison, for all the world like iron filings on a sheet of paper being controlled from beneath by a magnet. Suddenly as if a switch has been flicked, they drop from the sky and the performance is over for another day.

Juvenile Starling (Photo Justin Ivory) What you have just witnessed is a flock of starlings, or a murmuration, arriving at their evening, winter communal roost. The Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is a highly sociable bird and they roost communally throughout the year. During the breeding season these roosts are relatively small and mainly consist of non-breeding birds.

It is in late autumn and winter that these roosts can reach an incredible size, some in excess of a million individuals.

Typically, the roosts are in small woods, reed beds or suitable man-made structures, although in recent years urban roosts have been in decline. While a murmuration is the collective noun for a group/flock of starlings it is particularly associated with the large winter groups and their pre-roost aerial stunts and acrobatics.

HOROSCOPES

tv show of the week

film of the week

by Joseph O’Connor

shadowplay

Earth from Space Sunday 1 December 7pm RTE 2

Last christmas Released 22 November 2019

Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that will be full of drama, transformation, passionate and painful devotion to art and to one another. Henry Irving, is the volcanic leading man and impresario; Ellen Terry is the most lauded and desired actress of her generation; and following along behind them in the shadows is the unremarkable theatre manager, Bram Stoker. Fresh from life in Dublin as a clerk, Bram is wrestling with dark demons in a new city and with his own literary aspirations. As he walks the London streets at night, streets haunted by the Ripper, he finds new inspiration.

Episode 3: Colourful Planet. Cameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a brand new perspective, to reveal new discoveries and explore Earth’s most remote habitats.

In the third episode, cameras unveil stories behind some of the planet’s most intriguing colours, including the lights of the aurora, which tower in vertical streaks hundreds of kilometres high. Elsewhere, cameras also capture vast phytoplankton blooms in the ocean, and millions of rapeseed flowers in bloom in China’s Yunnan province. Catch up on player.

Kate (Emilia Clarke) harumphs around London, a bundle of bad decisions accompanied by the jingle of bells on her shoes, another irritating consequence from her job as an elf in a yearround Christmas shop. Tom (Henry Golding) seems too good to be true when he walks into her life and starts to see through so many of Kate’s barriers. As London transforms into the most wonderful time of the year, nothing should work for these two. But sometimes, you gotta let the snowfall where it may, you gotta listen to your heart ... and you gotta have faith. Featuring the music of George Michael, including the classic of the film’s title.

gig of the week

play of the week

show of the week

AriesAdvance to the next level with a partner. A test or challenge is resolved, with satisfying results. Celebrate with a favorite treat.

TaurusEnergize your work with love and passion. Put heart into your performance and it soars. Physical action produces results.

GeminiImagine a dream realized, especially with love and romance. Play and have fun with someone attractive. Get creative.

CancerEnergize a homeimprovement project.

Decisions made now can have long-lasting impact ... consider color, lighting and mood.

LeoStudy options and possibilities. Opportunities could hide behind more obvious changes. Consider messaging and responses.

Bell X1 – Acoustic-ish Vicar St, Friday 29th November - Sunday 1st December. Price:€38.65

ORSON WELLES’ CHRISTMAS CAROL The New Theatre, Temple Bar, Tuesday 3rd Saturday 14th December, Price:€14 - €18

HOUSE OF LIGHT Powerscourt Centre, Thursday 5th December Saturday 7th December

2018 saw Bell X1, one of Ireland’s most treasured bands, celebrate 20 years together with a remarkable five-night sold-out residency at Vicar Street. The band will end 2019 performing their very special Acoustic-ish with Dowry Strings show at the venue in November/December.

Since the release of their acclaimed 7th studio album Arms, the group have spent time touring in America, Australia, the UK and Europe. They’ve also released new material with their various side projects. Paul has been working on his first solo LP with The Gloaming‘s Thomas Bartlett, and Dave has been touring and releasing new material with Join Me In the Pines.

AboutFACE’s much-loved festive “radio-playwithin-a-play” for the whole family returns for an extended run. In this fast-moving, heartfelt comedy based on true events, young radio superstar Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre gang are presenting A Christmas Carol in New York live ON-AIR on Christmas Eve 1938… having just lost their Scrooge. Featuring a 45-minute version of A Christmas Carol in the 1930’s radio style with live sound effects and carols, this is a Christmassy treat for the whole family, with a touch of old Hollywood glamour.

The Simon House of Light Festival – The Dublin Simon Community is inviting people of all ages to the three day Christmas extravaganza which will take over the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre, on Dublin’s South William Street, from 5pm-10pm each evening. The festive celebration will see the front of the Centre illuminated in a magical music and light projection show. To accompany the show, the event will also see an array of entertainment and activities every half hour. Acts like The Strypes, Lucan Gospel Choir, Neon Wolf and Ailbhe Reddy have supported the event in the past.

panto of the week

festival of the week

event of the week

VirgoThings could get lucrative.

Harvest a windfall. Keep things simple and save extra nuts for winter. Don’t take risks or gamble.

LibraAdvance toward a personal goal. Let others know what you’re up to and gain valuable support. Dress for the part you want.

ScorpioCreativity and imagination thrive with peaceful conditions. Careful planning now saves money and time later.

Sagittarius-

Team efforts can surge ahead. Speculate, collaborate and coordinate.

Share resources, ideas and possibilities.

CapricornCareer opportunities have your attention. Accept an inviting challenge. You can figure out this puzzle. Keep your objective in mind.

aladdin - gaiety panto Gaiety Theatre, Sunday 24th November - Sunday 5th January Price:€19.50+

This year’s Panto will excite and delight with song, dance, slapstick and laughter that we expect from the Gaiety’s festive extravaganza.

The mystical ‘Cave of Desire’ holds the magic lamp that can only be recovered by one of true heart. Our hero Aladdin, is tricked by his devious “Uncle” into retrieving the lamp and we enter a world of wonder as the ‘Genie of the Lamp’ makes his wishes come true. But, be careful what you wish for - you may get more than you bargained for…!

WINTER WINE & CHEESE FESTIVAL Friday 22nd November - Saturday 14th December, Jam Park, Airside Retail Park, Swords,

POLAR PLUNGE FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS Forty Foot, Sandycove Polar Plunge Saturday 30th November – Freezin’ for a Reason!

Praise Brie and the Baby Cheesus! The Wine & Cheese Festival is back, just in time for your Christmas parties and get togethers. Tickets: €15 (or table of 8 group deal €100) – gets you wine on arrival some festive cheesy treats AND… Pop-up wine bars; Pop-up cheese shops; Brewtonic Winter Warmers bar – all the mulled drinks; Eatyard Cheese Shop menu – loads of cheese, fondue, mac and cheese, hamburgers & more; Music, entertainment & games; Wine Masterclass; Christmas Karaoke.

Plunge into the Christmas period this November as the Polar Plunge returns for its 11th year and is one not to be missed! Jump, run or tiptoe into the cold waters and support these amazing athletes by taking part in this fun, family-friendly event! With Santa on hand to raise those spirits, as well as Bear Chills – the event mascot, this event is just as fun for the spectators as it is the BRRRAVE Plungers!

Register through the Get Tickets link below to take part in the event. Registration will also be available on the day, however please

AquariusFair winds and smooth sailing grace your journey.

Explore, investigate and discover. Learn from respected elders and teachers.

PiscesTackle detailed tasks to manage financial, legal or insurance matters. Bolster your shared investments through careful monitoring.

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