VIDEO: There’s nowhere like Ireland for the emigrants coming home for Christmas

The Irish have a terrible habit of mixing up their sorrow for their joy. We are a nation of emigrants. As we flock to airports every Christmas to welcome our loved ones home, the reunions are always so bittersweet as happiness comes in the form of floods of tears.

In Dublin Airport yesterday, returning emigrants were arriving in their droves, met by banners and balloons.

One sign in particular caught many the teary eye. It read ‘Welcome home baby Sonny’. Up until yesterday, 9-week-old Sonny had never set foot on home soil.