Website commits to gift delivery deadline

An Irish gift website which has been the subject of numerous complaints over delivery delays has committed to deliver all Christmas orders by today.

Waterford-based Christmasdirect.ie has been the subject of 25 complaints to the National Consumer Agency from furious customers who said their promised items had not been delivered. Disgruntled parents took to internet forums, expressing fears their goods would not be delivered by Christmas.

The NCA confirmed it had contacted the company and had secured an undertaking that all orders would be delivered by today.