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Time to take down the tree

IF you follow tradition you will take down your Christmas tree today. January 6 is Little Christmas or Women’s Christmas and marks the end of the holiday. This seems to be a uniquely Irish custom. In Norway and Sweden the tradition is to take down the tree on January 13.

We are all responsible for the planet and need to face up to climate change

business

Vodafone revenues decline to £44bn

news

Volcanic ash could persist 'until Friday'

news

Irish airspace closed until 6pm

news

SIPTU: 1% levy could derail pay deal

Rats as big as cats? More likely a Coypu

IN THE Marais du Vigueirat, a nature reserve in the Camargue, I ran into an old acquaintance; a coypu emerged from a burrow, looked at me quizzically for a moment, sauntered down to a nearby pool and plunged in.

Mon, 03 Oct, 2005

Fyffes in $30m deal with Del Monte

EUROPE’S largest fresh produce company, Fyffes, is to pay $30 million for 80% of the Hamburg-based Internationale Fruchtimport Gesellschaft Weichert & Co (INTER) from Del Monte Fresh Produce.

Wed, 02 Oct, 2002