Christmas cards

Referrals to the foodbank were up around 300% last month

Fashion designer and artist Sara O’Neill has now helped to raise nearly £40,000 for the charity with her designs.

A coronation image was selected for the King and Queen’s Christmas card while the Prince and Princess of Wales opted for a relaxed family photo.

Sara O’Neill has already raised £9,000 for Women’s Aid NI this year through selling the cards.

TWO primary school pupils are "over the moon" that their painting of deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill has been used on her official Christmas card.

WHILE email and social media have led to a decline in the number of Christmas cards being sent in recent years, the tradition is being carrying out with immense care and detail by Omagh man Declan Forde.

FORMER Taoiseach Charles Haughey received a Christmas card from the UDA in the 1980s, it has been revealed.

Jonathan Stanley’s efforts are so realistic they’ve got his mum worried.

IT SEEMS like only yesterday that Noddy Holder was guldering on about hanging up yer stocking on the wall and now, here you are in February, choosing the perfect card to express love, investing in a huge bunch of overpriced red roses, or just rolling your eyes.

A standard postage stamp would be able to hold over 200 million of these cards.