Spending Christmas in exile

* Message to family: “Have a great Christmas and a happy New Year. Love you all and we look forward to seeing you in 2014.”

Wayne Speight and his younger sister Hayley have never spent Christmas away from home — until now.

The siblings, from Cork’s northside, are spending Christmas together in Toronto with friends and their respective partners. Wayne’s been here for three years, while Hayley arrived in May.