Irish love to talk during festive period

TEXTS, calls and letters washed over the country in their millions for Christmas according to provisional figures.

O2 recorded 28 million text messages sent across Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, while Meteor recorded 32 million texts and 6.5 million calls across the same two days on its network.

Figures for other mobile phone providers were not available, but An Post reported that its overall postal volume doubled compared to that of last year, when the severe weather hampered delivery.