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This week marks the traditional start of Christmas festivities. A time when towns and cities bustle and burst, where shoppers are greeted by Christmas carols, however nauseatingly repetitive; shop windows are festooned with fairy lights, draped haphazardly to produce that festive glow; and of course, there is always a traditional Christmas market with that smell of spice and sugar.

With Christmas just a month away, it is now officially safe to embrace Christmas and the festive season, if you haven't already done this. This has been the most unusual year that most of us has experienced, but the great spirit that has seen us through it is needed for a while longer until we get life back to some sort of normality.

A “barking mad” one euro sale takes place at the MADRA charity shop in Westside this Friday and Saturday, 27th and 28th of November, from 11am to 5pm.

Registered charity shops in Galway will display a special Choose Charity Shops 1st sign in their windows from tomorrow.

The MADRA charity shop in Westside will hold a special coffee afternoon on Saturday from 12 noon to 3pm.

If you’re planning a summer clear-out at home you might like to know that all money raised in Brian’s Treasure Chest Charity Shop, Castle Street, Mullingar during the first week in August will be donated to LARCC. If you wish to make a donation of clothes, shoes, books, etc, to the shop please mention LARCC, and make sure to spread the word.

A new charity shop will open for business in Castlecomer this week, following the decision of the Irish Wheelchair Association to close its outlet in the town. The IWA shop closed its doors for the last time yesterday, Thursday, March 31.

Mrs Quin’s Charity Shop, which raises funds for the National Council for the Blind has moved to Garden Street.

A city charity shop is to close next month because it it no longer viable, according to the organisation which runs the service.

Can you count 20,000 hours? One Carlow woman can, because she just received an award for every single one of them.