Less than a month before Christmas, I did some last-minute ... greenery similar to that of "Jurassic Park" in the winter Irish countryside. I spent most of my time in West Cork wandering the ...

In Ireland, on Christmas Day, the airports were closed. No planes landed or took off. No buses came either. No trains left the shuttered stations. No ferries sailed into the ports. No cinema opened.

Today is "Nollaig na mBan" in Ireland, also known as "Little Christmas," "Women's Christmas," and "Women's Little Christmas." To the Christian world it's the "official" end of Christmas and ...