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TWO WEEKS AGO, it was the opening of the Brown Thomas Christmas store.
Then last week we found out that Dublin City Council is looking for its festive trees.
Today? We were hoping that we’d be putting on our sunglasses and hot pants for Electric Picnic. Instead, we’re reading job adverts for elves. Yes, Christmas Elves.
We cannot cope.
Rathwood in county Carlow runs a Santa Train each year and is hoping to employ 150 elves by December to entertain its expected 50,000 guests.
According to the company, the annual recruitment drive has grown immensely since 2005 when just 10 elves were required.
And if you think this is just very early preparations, you’re wrong. Bookings to take the Santa Train open on Monday – the first day of September.
“As usual the most sought after times are expected to be sold out in days,” Rathwood claims.
Fancy bring joy and being an elf this December? The positions that need filling include Santa’s personal helpers, Mrs Claus’s personal assistant, storytelling elves, woodlands elves, teacher elves and postman elves.
Applicants will have to interact with both parents and children, and be good with animals. The ideal applicant will also have theatrical skills and bubbly, enthusiastic mannerisms. Most importantly though, they need to LOVE Christmas.
Oh, and they must know their elfabet.
The deadline for applications is 30 September and more details are available here.
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Headline says Wicklow and article says Carlow?
I know spelling is normally quite bad on the journal by the authors by Irish geography? Really?
Live in the area, its Wicklow location but postally its Tullow Co. Carlow.
Creating employment so yes yes yes!
Happy Valentines Day everyone!
Feck it a Job is a Job
Christmas boxes of quality street, roses etc in tesco today. TOO SOON!!!
Elf intern…coming to JobBridge as soon as they can find a loophole around the 6 month minimum stretch…
Went to rathwood with the kids a few years ago after hearing all the hype about it. Have to say it was alright nothing spectacular. Art and crafts for the kids at the start then a train ride then a walk to Santa,a few sparse lights and a guy in an elf suit and some singing. Nothing to write home about wondered what all the fuss was about.
You’re looking at it from an adult’s perspective. I doubt the point is to entertain you. A trip away, arts and crafts, a train ride, lights, music, elves and a visit to Santa. If you’re under the age of 8 that can be a pretty wicked day out, no!?
If you think it’s too early to mention Christmas – which it seems you do – then why publish an article about it?
Maybe I’ve missed something, but is there any reason why the “is” is missing out of the word Christmas?
Christmas offends some religions. We must conform or risk the wrath of Allah.
Ah right, I suppose it makes sense as to not upset anyone. I’m old school so I was always taught to say Christmas instead of Xmas… Well Merry Christmas/chri**mas to you all.
It’s August! Christmas isn’t until December, many businesses out there would do well to remember that!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT, if I could put up my christmas decos now I would but I always wait till All Souls Day is over, so the 3rd of Nov is when they go up, absolutely dying for it
Do you not get fed up looking at them? I usually put them up about 2 weeks before and can’t wait to take them down so I can scrub the place.
I haven’t even had my “summer holiday” yet and people are talking about Christmas?
No Karen cos I decorate my fireplace gorgeous, so any everyday stuff that I have during the yr is packed away and christmas stuff replaces it, like christmas globes, coca cola Santa figures, my daughter who will be 20 in feb, I have a few diff pics throughout the yrs of visiting santy so they’re in christmas photo frames which all do get dusted and sprayed and now I’ve a new baby girl who’ll be 1 in jan, so more photos
I think you’ll find Rathwood is in Carlow and not Wicklow….
Its actually in Wicklow, when you cross the bridge leaving Tullow there is a Welcome to Wicklow Sign. So technically its Wicklow not Carlow
http://rathwood.com/OpeningTimes.html according to Rathwood, it’s in Tullow Co Carlow……
You and I have very different meanings for the C word…
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