Watch Michelle Darmody make the perfect Christmas cocktail

Any Christmas is surely not complete without a cocktail or two to lift what can be flagging spirits.

With that in mind food and drink writer Michelle Darmody decamped to the imperious Souths Bar in the Imperial Hotel, Cork and made what she believes is one of the quintessential Christmas Day cocktails.

So check it out and wny not give a 'Blood and Sand' a try some time soon.