Seventeen-year-old Katie Blake has been missing from Callan, Co Kilkenny since yesterday.

Cribs come in all shapes and sizes, and exuding varying degrees of piety or cheeriness, depending on which set of people or what establishment happens to be displaying this Christmas tradition. 

The Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports (CACS) is alarmed at the news that hares are now extinct on Dublin Bay’s North Bull Island, one of Ireland’s most important nature reserves and coincidentally one that for generations had been almost synonymous with the Irish hare.