Cork couple raise funds for Marymount with spectacular Christmas lights display

Choristers singing, reindeer gambolling and Santa sleighing — Christmas arrived with a splash yesterday in a rural Co Cork community as a local family switched on a dazzling extravaganza of lights.

Friends and visitors shook a leg with a dancing Santa, sang along with the giant choir, and posed with baby Jesus in a life-sized crib — or simply just took in the scintillating sights and sounds of Christmas 2015 at the home of Neilus and Margaret Lehane.

Their mind-blowing display incorporates thousands of light-bulbs, hundreds of metres of electrical wire, and up to 200 different colourful and often noisy Christmas-themed decorations. They have raised nearly €40,000 for Marymount Hospice in Cork over the past 10 years.