Live animal crib adds to seasonal festivity

WHAT llamas have to do with Christmas is anyone’s guess, but the nativity scene at Dublin’s Mansion House had a pair of them yesterday — and the children loved them.

Also featured in this year's live animal crib are donkeys, calves, goats and sheep and, even though it is still 11 days to December 25, baby Jesus is already in the manger.

Only one Wise Man travelled far to the capital to open the life size crib yesterday and he came from the mid-west, not the east.