{"id":214658,"date":"2025-12-04T07:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/214658\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:57:11","slug":"after-10-years-magical-christmas-festival-returns-to-south-dublin-with-walk-through-50-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/214658\/","title":{"rendered":"After 10 years, magical Christmas festival returns to south Dublin with walk through 50 trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u200b<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The interior of Crinken Church, in Shankill, ahead of the Christmas Tree Festival.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BP Crinkenchurch.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The interior of Crinken Church, in Shankill, ahead of the Christmas Tree Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A unique Christmas festival, which last took place in Shankill, south County Dublin, a decade ago, has returned to rekindle the story of Christmas along with a walk through some 50 resplendent Christmas trees, each with a special message from community groups, individuals and businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Christmas Tree Festival 2025, at Crinken Church, promises magic, light, and wonder over the weekend of December 5-7, and one of the aims of the festival this year has been to encourage residents from the new estates of Woodbrook and Shanganagh Castle to partake in a distinctive event that extols the spirit of Christmas, but at its heart is an open and inclusive celebration for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200b The interior of Crinken Church, in Shankill, ahead of the Christmas Tree Festival. A unique Christmas festival,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,16838,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,9273,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-214658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-tom-galvin","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115660236333841332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}