Magical tour to Santa’s realm

SANTA’S KINGDOM will open its magical doors tomorrow in Punchestown with a superb fantasy shuttle trip to the North Pole.

This will be a great consolation prize for thousands of families who were left high and dry with more than 5,000 worthless tickets for a rival Santa experience after that company collapsed earlier this month.

Winter Wonderland director Adrian Smith was planning to host another Santa event at the Curragh Racecourse but the plug was pulled on the operation after it emerged that he had no event licence.