Christmas to go ahead after all the Dáil fun and games

There was a giddy atmosphere around the Dáil.

Word that Christmas would not be cancelled began to filter out from the very leaky walls of Government Buildings and around the halls of Leinster House just after 11.30am.

TDs had already received a frosty reception over the weekend when they went back to their cold constituencies, many getting a drubbing on the doors. The thoughts of four weeks of runny noses, frostbite and canvassing didn’t seem too appealing. The giddiness, like a winter flu, spread into the Dáil chamber, when TDs packed in to hear in person that they could reorder the turkey and put the walking boots away.