What coming home for Christmas means to these Irish celebrities

Vicki Notaro tracks down some of the nation’s favourite gals and talks to them about the pilgrimage home for Christmas Day celebrations.

Maia Dunphy

The journalist and broadcaster, 39, is preparing to leave her new home in London and fly home to Dublin with her new baby Tom. But it’s bittersweet spending Christmas away from husband Johnny Vegas… “I always go to my parents’ house for Christmas. My husband and I are a bit non-traditional as we still both go to our respective families, and at this stage I think our individual family’s Christmas customs are incompatible!