Christmas Traditions

[High Wide and Handsome]

Going to grandmother's on christmas eve, then home to meet friends and have a beer in local bar.

Christmas day after mass we all head to a friends house in our old neighbourhood for few whiskey.

Always great steam!

[AbbeySider]

Going to grandmother's on christmas eve, then home to meet friends and have a beer in local bar.

Christmas day after mass we all head to a friends house in our old neighbourhood for few whiskey.

Always great steam!

On Christmas eve my family go visiting cousins, aunts and uncles, calling to 3 different houses. I normally have Irish Coffees or cans of beer in each house. Sometimes we go to mass if we are not half cut but in the last few year we have left mass until Christmas morning.
Either way we end up in the local on Christmas eve sinking pints with everyone being at home.
Good times!

[maddog]

Bullets on christmas eve
Lots of pints with the brothers/cousins/mates afterwards
Home early (ish) and fresh for xmas day.
Great times and looking forward to getting back on the aul sod.

[Tubberman]

Usually go into town to meet the friends on Christmas eve - everyone's always in great form, best few pints of the year I'd say!
All the family are home before midnight (half-cut or fully cut) and then we start opening the presents - this is a recent enough thing, used to always leave it til the morning but we've been opening them just after midnight for the last few years. Drunken present opening and reactions way better than sober! 
On Christmas Day, the cousins arrive for the big dinner, and either myself or Dad usually end up making the Irish Coffees after the dinner. Ends in a sing song most years, and depending how much people have had to drink, the cousins might stay over.
This year, Dad is 60 on St Stephen's Day, so it's going to a tough few days on the system!!

[Hoof Hearted]

i used to do a mixture of the above. Involved alcohol all the time

This year the wife is working until 8PM, so my xmas day will be spent driving the kids around the houses.

No alcohol until near 9.00PM at the latest - about 12 hours later than usual !

Will be strange but wouldnt change it for the world. (plus she will be on maternity leave next xmas so it's for 1 year only)

[saffron sam2]

i used to do a mixture of the above. Involved alcohol all the time

This year the wife is working until 8PM, so my xmas day will be spent driving the kids around the houses.

No alcohol until near 9.00PM at the latest - about 12 hours later than usual !

Will be strange but wouldnt change it for the world. (plus she will be on maternity leave next xmas so it's for 1 year only)

Congratulations big man.

[AbbeySider]

i used to do a mixture of the above. Involved alcohol all the time

This year the wife is working until 8PM, so my xmas day will be spent driving the kids around the houses.

No alcohol until near 9.00PM at the latest - about 12 hours later than usual !

Will be strange but wouldnt change it for the world. (plus she will be on maternity leave next xmas so it's for 1 year only)

Congrats man.

I worked Christmas day 3 years in a row.

I didnt really mind as I was working in catering in a hospital (on male wards) and there was a certain poignancy about working there on Christmas day although sometimes it was upsetting or depressing.

But there was a feel good factor that you were doing your best for the patients that were too sick to go home at Christmas. And the fact that by working, older people got a chance to be with their families and since I was a student I knew my turn would come around.

Oh yeah and it was treble time.

[the colonel]

mass on christmas eve then a few pints after

go to the golf club with my da and brothers on christmas day while me ma and sisters make the dinner. its full of the same fellas every year before the dinner is served!

[ONeill]

Herself is working on Christmas day so it'll be a lonely one.

[Niall Quinn]

i used to do a mixture of the above. Involved alcohol all the time

This year the wife is working until 8PM, so my xmas day will be spent driving the kids around the houses.

No alcohol until near 9.00PM at the latest - about 12 hours later than usual !

Will be strange but wouldnt change it for the world. (plus she will be on maternity leave next xmas so it's for 1 year only)

Congrats man.

[Hoof Hearted]

cheers for all the congrats lads.

[mikasas]

Congrats hoof!