How do Santa’s reindeer fly? And what does Mrs Claus do on Christmas Eve, while Santa’s flying around the world? These and other mysteries are kindly explained to Áilín Quinlan by the junior infants of Kilgarriffe National School in Clonakilty, Co Cork.

GARDAÍ are searching for two masked raiders who forced their way into an elderly woman’s West Cork home, grabbed her by the throat and threatened her with a wooden baton.