Irish town the focus of Big Fat Gypsy Christmas

A SMALL Irish town is set to play a starring role in a Big Fat Gypsy one-off show which gives a peep into nine jaw-droppingly extravagant Traveller nuptials crammed into one church over 10 days of Christmas.

One teenage Limerick bride had to wear nappies on her hips to carry her 15-stone dress, while another revealed how a cartoon inspired her bell-shaped meringue dress, which used a mile of material.

The population of Rathkeale in Co Limerick is normally 1,500 but it swells to nearly treble that every December.