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an unprecedented christmas WORDS BY ANN MORONEY
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have honestly never looked forward to Christmas less. I feel I can speak for most people with that statement. Not only is there the small issue of a global pandemic but we now have exams and deadlines in January which aptly encapsulates the cliché of adding insult to injury. The 2020 holiday season is hardly one that is going to go down in the annals history for the right reasons and the traditions we usually all enjoy and rely on have been thrown into upheaval; some belong to our pre-Covid world and some remain intact. Last week I was standing outside a coffee shop and heard the familiar opening chords of ‘Fairytale of New York’ for the first time since last December. There is something about the raspy timbre of Shane McGowan growling ‘it was Christmas Eve babe’ that overwhelms me with such a nostalgia that no other Christmas song or symbol has ever matched.
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