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'Um....pudding': Kids tell us their favourite things about Christmas

We visited St Laurence O’Tooles Junior Boys school in Dublin and asked them what they like about Christmas.

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PUDDING AND CHRISTMAS trees. Roast ham and snowmen. What are your favourite things about Christmas?

We visited St Laurence O’Tooles Junior Boys school in Dublin and asked the pupils there what they most like about Christmas.

While they were at it, they showed off their vocal skills and dance moves as they practised for their end-of-year nativity play.

Read: ‘It feels good to do a good deed’: This nine-year-old Irish boy is travelling to Belarus to help Santa’

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    Mute Ciaran MacAoidh
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    Oct 18th 2013, 2:58 PM

    So, have the government started stealing your babies yet, or were Waters, Quinn and O’Brien wrong again?

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    Mute Martin Bishop
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    Oct 18th 2013, 3:06 PM

    Course they were wrong, sure any sane person knew they were talking out their backsides

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    Mute cooperguy
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    Oct 18th 2013, 3:21 PM

    No they are too busy enforcing the mandatory abortions from the abortion legislation to get around to stealing the babies

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    Mute Rkmr
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    Oct 18th 2013, 3:35 PM

    The legislation hasn’t been put in place yet. The referendum was passed but nothing in the constitution has changed yet.

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    Mute Emily Elephant
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    Oct 18th 2013, 3:44 PM

    To be fair, the anti-referendum campaign could also ask whether the Irish state’s protection of children has improved. A third alternative is that it was a big pointless vanity project.

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    Mute Richie Rodgers
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    Oct 18th 2013, 4:45 PM

    Can we insist on the High Court awarding costs against this petitioner as this was a gross insult to jurisprudence as the woman produced no evidence to support her claim.

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    Mute Kerry Blake
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    Oct 18th 2013, 5:50 PM

    Read the article again Richie and you might understand it. Are you suggesting that only those with a 100% chance of winning their case should approach the courts? Sounds very elitist to me an attempt to limit peoples rights to avail of court services.

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Oct 18th 2013, 6:17 PM

    Whistleblowing will be the problem.

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    Mute Ian Cuneyt Cakir Foley
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    Oct 18th 2013, 7:51 PM

    Remind me, did the govt ministers who sanctioned the ultra vires booklet pay the costs in the mccrystal case or pay back the public money wasted on the booklet?

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    Mute Jazz O'Gorman
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    Oct 18th 2013, 2:46 PM

    What an absolute waste of court time, the judge should have jailed her for contempt.

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    Mute Rebecca eaton
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    Oct 18th 2013, 4:05 PM

    Oh yes of course because she is wrong? The yes vote was pushed more then the no vote and the government don’t give a dame children in Ireland don’t have a voice and never ever will.

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    Mute Deasun Mac An Choiligh
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    Oct 18th 2013, 6:27 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=I0OiNdj2aP4 , “There is no system ever devised by mankind that is guaranteed to rip husband and wife or father, mother and child apart so bitterly than our present Family Court System.” Judge Brian Lindsay, Retired Supreme Court Judge

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    Mute Paul Roche
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    Oct 18th 2013, 7:55 PM

    Oh Rosemary!

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    Mute Carcu Sidub
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    Oct 18th 2013, 3:27 PM

    So onto the Supreme Court?

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    Mute tom
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    Oct 18th 2013, 3:19 PM

    Doesn’t seem justice was servered as supreme court had previously ruled the campaign was baised and unfair.

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    Mute Carcu Sidub
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    Oct 18th 2013, 4:01 PM

    The High Court appear to say any referendum campain run by the Government of the day can indeed be biast and unfair as long as being biast and unfair does not have an affect on the result. This appears to overule the McKenna judgment.

    However the Supreme Court says the Government campin on the childrens referendum was biast and unfair but did not make a judgment on if being biast and unfair had an affect on the result.

    So I guess we will never know unless this decision is appealed to the Supreme Court.

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    Mute Kerry Blake
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    Oct 18th 2013, 4:09 PM

    More to the point when are FG and labour going to pay back the €2 million of tax payers money they misused during the referendum?

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    Mute Richie Rodgers
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    Oct 18th 2013, 4:44 PM

    Kerry
    I think you may find that the Government cannot be equated to a Political Party or Parties in terms of any errors it may have committed in their day to day roles. On the basis of your logic we should also ask the Roman Catholic Church for a contribution as well since most of the Members of Government were also of that faith and sure why not include the GAA while we’re at it!
    Given that the above is apparently good legal advice will you now give it a rest Kerry?

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    Mute Kerry Blake
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    Oct 18th 2013, 5:39 PM

    2 government parties were found to have misused Irish tax payers money in a referendum. I tell you what Richie when they pay that money back I’ll give it a rest. How about a bit of accountability from Enda and Eamon?

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    Mute Caroline Hughes
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    Oct 18th 2013, 9:18 PM

    Tom is quite right, the government are in the wrong-they always are!

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