‘Toy Show’ ticket worth weight in gold

The Late Late Toy Show — consistently one of the most-watched programmes on Irish television — is as much a part of Christmas as turkey dinners and drunk uncles.

With just over a month to go until the annual yuletide extravaganza, the race is now on for 200 golden tickets.

Applications opened yesterday and, if the social media buzz is anything to go by, throngs of people have already put their names forward. Over 40,000 people applied last year.