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Forget a tumbler of brandy for Santa this year, and instead think about leaving the big man a Pornstar Martini, which has today been confirmed as the nation’s favourite cocktail.

One of the hallmarks of the work of 19th-century author Charles Dickens is his oddball characters and their fanciful names: Uriah Heep, Martin Chuzzlewit, Lady Honorie Dedlock, Pip Pirrip, Abel Magwich, Miss LaCreevy, and Bardle the Beedle, to name a few. Perhaps Dickens’ best-known character is Ebenezer Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol -who, it turns out, was inspired by a real person and whose name has become a byword for miserly and mean.

The Majella Flanagan Theatre Company have the perfect new year treat in store for families at Roscommon Arts Centre, when their production of 'A Christmas Carol' takes to the stage on Friday and Saturday, January 3 and 4, next.

ONE OF the greatest stories ever written about Christmas, and also one of the most influential, reinterpreted, and best loved, is Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a new production of which will be staged in Galway.

‘If we had extra geese or cockerels my mother and myself would bring them to the market in Loughrea on the second Thursday before Christmas that was known as 'Big Thursday'. The market was held on the main street that time, you would not collect much money, maybe three shillings per goose but that would help to buy the Christmas.