When gifts go very wrong

CHRISTMAS memories are usually the stuff of magic, but sometimes they’re a little less so. Here, some of Ireland’s best known recall the Christmas gifts they remember for all the wrong reasons.

Michael Healy-Rae

“Five years ago I got the most useless Christmas present I ever got in my life. It was a comb. Now, you’d only have to look at me to know that I’d have little use for a gift like that.