Live animal nativity crib opens in Dublin
Set in a specially-constructed, life-size stable, it is the ninth year that the IFA crib has been erected in the Mansion House forecourt in the run-up to Christmas.
It is based on a similar crib, which has been a feature of Christmas in the Grande Place, in Brussels, for many years, and is meant as a gesture of goodwill from the farmers of Ireland to the people of Dublin.
