'It's a gift from farmers': Live animal crib returns to the Mansion House for Christmas

The crib has been featured in Dublin city centre every year since 1995.
'It's a gift from farmers': Live animal crib returns to the Mansion House for Christmas

The 2022 live crib in St Stephen’s Green. Pictured were four-year-old Arlo Egan and three-year-old Jack Anderson from the YMCA crèche on Aungier Street feeding a donkey at the crib. Picture: Finbarr O’Rourke

The annual live animal crib will return to the Mansion House in Dublin city centre for Christmas 2023, the Irish Farmers' Association has confirmed.

This follows last year's controversy when Dublin's Lord Mayor at the time and Green Party councillor Caroline Conroy announced the cancellation of the live crib as part of the nativity scene outside the Mansion House.

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