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These are the 9 best Christmas light displays in Ireland

Now that’s festive.

WITH LESS THAN a week to go to Christmas, Ireland is well and truly lit up.

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The Late Late put out a call to find the best Christmas homes in Ireland, and the entries didn’t disappoint. Out of hundreds of entries, they’ve been whittled down to just nine. On tomorrow’s show, a winner will be chosen.

Who do you think should get the crown?

Steve Peck’s house in Ballincollig, Co Cork

Steve Peck Corku

The Whelan family home in Cabra, Dublin

Whelan family Cabra

Peggy O’Callaghan’s house in Macroom, Co Cork

Peggy O'Callaghan Cork

Babs and Martin Daly’s house in Sallynoggin, south county Dublin

Babs and Martin Daly Sallynogginu

Kevin and Lorraine Lynch’s house in Limerick

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Nigel Kirby’s house in Cork

Nigel Kirby Corku

Pamela and Stephen Stroughair’s house in Tallaght, south Dublin

Pamela Stroughair Tallaght

Mary Whorriskey’s house in Kerrykeel, Donegal

Mary Whorriskey Donegal

Josie’s house in Crumlin, south Dublin

Josie's House Crumlin

Written by Nicola Byrne and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Mute Caoimín Ó Muircheartaigh
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    Oct 4th 2023, 3:53 PM

    Each year, over 100,000 people are officially dying from drug overdoses alone in the US yet the US is spending billions on foreign policy. It caught up with them now, and we’re witnessing a cold civil war in US politics. This is what you can expect when you have Biden mafia smiling all around them, demonising the opposition to support the Military Industrial Complex. The rest of the world will not forget what the US and UK has done to the country and people of Ukraine. This isn’t going to end well for the US/Ukraine.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 4:06 PM

    @Caoimín Ó Muircheartaigh: The US spends approx. 1% of it’s budget on foreign aid. The majority of that money is spent to buy weapons, food, and other products made in America, which are then shipped to other nations.

    And alway interesting how you Russian apologists ignore the very pertinent point that Russia invaded Ukraine after years of the West trying to appease him.

    Appeasement doesn’t work on Putin. It emboldens him.

    And what the rest of the world won’t forget is that if the West lets Putin win in Ukraine we will all suffer the consequences.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 4:18 PM

    @Tricia G: Well look at you, defending the US war machine. You people are so easily led and devoid of principles, it makes me sick. Pathetic.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 4:20 PM

    @: I will defend democracy and the rule of law.

    You support a despot. Go read the article on the reporter that was jailed for 8 years for protesting the Russian invasion. Good thing she managed to flee the country.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 4:30 PM

    @Tricia G: all about the mostly peaceful protests by BLM?

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    Oct 4th 2023, 5:04 PM

    @Tricia G:
    Go read about Julian Assange.
    And remember Saint Obama?
    During the Obama administration, the Department of Justice brought charges under the Espionage Act against eight people accused of leaking to the media — Thomas Drake, Shamai Leibowitz, Stephen Kim, Chelsea Manning, Donald Sachtleben, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou and Edward Snowden.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 5:15 PM

    @Tricia G: Ah the old democracy bombs is it? Lololololol you have absolutely no self awareness at all, have you. God almighty woman…

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    Oct 4th 2023, 5:31 PM

    @Tricia G: where was the rule of law when the US invaded the middle east? Where is the rule of law with the US Soldiers illegally occupying oil fields Northern Syria taking robbing billions of oil while also enforcing crippling sanctions on the Syrian people?.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 8:30 PM

    @: Are you really trying to claim that because wrong was done by someone, somewhere, before that we are not allowed to do right?

    How many times have you been called out on this silly claim?

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    Oct 4th 2023, 10:12 PM

    @Tommy Haze: I personally don’t agree with what happened to those people but they did leak confidential documents. If you can name a news anchor in America that got 8 years in jail for calling the Iraq war a war then you’d have a point

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    Oct 5th 2023, 10:20 AM

    Pathetic is being so fearful, that you don’t even dare to have an avatar to identify you.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 4:46 PM

    no single article about bijden impeachment process.. this shows u how partisan these so called journoz are..

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    Oct 4th 2023, 9:29 PM

    @Bass Boss: The impeachment for which the Republican witnesses say there is no evidence of wrongdoing?

    That impeachment?

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    Oct 4th 2023, 4:23 PM

    WE WANT TRUMP

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    Oct 4th 2023, 4:54 PM

    @ Tricia G whizz

    One can accept spinning the truth to score your point, but inventing things and calling them truth at this stage is at best amateur even for a seasoned bot. The Military Industry Complex chair of the lobbying committee even before Victor Yanakovich was hounded from office by Victoria Nuland and the US amabassardor, she got her coup and the rest is history. Putin pleaded with the West and Minsk 2 was agreed guaranteed by France and Germany. The US said no. Why? Because the MIC wanted their weapons sold at enormous profit to corrupt Ukraine and they got it. Then the Ukraines bombed their own citizens in the Donbass, children and OAPs. It wasn’t Russia killing them. So why try to invent your own truth? You don’t have facts or history on your spinning nonsense.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 5:11 PM

    @Caoimín Ó Muircheartaigh:
    ps
    On a computer one can respond in thread.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 6:24 PM

    @Tommy Haze: He’s not that smart.

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    Oct 5th 2023, 11:16 AM

    @Caoimín Ó Muircheartaigh: Are you talking about the Victor Yanukovych that was living in a $75 million mansion before he fled? Who had a net worth of billions ( who on earth gave him that kind of rewards)? Who now lives in Russia? Whose son was also an oligarch (But Hunter etc)? Whose son is now living in Russia? That Yanukovych? But sure, it was lil’ ol’ Victoria Nuland who got that million people on the street, not the corrupt pieces of **** who were trying to overturn the expressed wishes of the country.

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    Oct 4th 2023, 4:16 PM

    It would be hilarious if Trump became the speaker

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    Oct 4th 2023, 8:34 PM

    Senator Fetterman explains it best

    “Replacing one dick with a different kind of dick isn’t going to change anything in the House. We’re one DNA test from the Jerry Springer show.”

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    Oct 4th 2023, 9:57 PM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: quoting Fetterman now are you. The man cannot string a sentence together. What wife has done is nothing short of a disgrace, he should be in hospital recovering

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