Joyce Fegan: How Celts’ winter solstice is relevant to modern Ireland

If you look around us, the trees are without their leaves, animals are hibernating, farm animals are kept indoors, flowers have gone to seed, and aside from us humans, everyone and everything else seems to have got the memo to slow down, writes Joyce Fegan.

Today is officially the shortest day of the year and at 4.19am tomorrow, we’ll have the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, when the Earth’s North Pole is at its maximum tilt away from the sun.