{"id":652848,"date":"2025-12-24T18:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652848\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:47:17","slug":"first-minister-signs-off-on-nice-list-as-santa-pays-christmas-eve-visit-to-stormont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652848\/","title":{"rendered":"First Minister signs off on nice list as Santa pays Christmas Eve visit to Stormont"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Michelle<\/p>\n

Michelle O’Neill hands over the approved ‘nice list’ to Santa.<\/p>\n

First Minster Michelle O\u2019Neill had an unexpected visitor on Christmas Eve when Santa stopped in at Stormont ahead of setting off on his journey.<\/p>\n

Sharing a video to her social media it shows Ms O\u2019Neill taking a call from reception saying there was an \u201curgent\u201d visitor there to see her. <\/p>\n

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Confused as to who would be urgent on Christmas Eve \u2013 she is happy to see it\u2019s Santa.<\/p>\n

In the video Santa apologises for the last minute visit but asks Ms O\u2019Neill to sign off the nice list allowing him to deliver his presents to all the NI children who were good this year. <\/p>\n

The First Minister happily ticks off the list before wishing Santa good luck on his journey. <\/p>\n

\"Michelle<\/p>\n

Michelle O’Neill hands over the approved ‘nice list’ to Santa.<\/p>\n

Watch: Families reunited at Belfast City Airport as people return home for Christmas<\/p>\n

Santa is gearing up for his annual journey across the world tonight, when he delivers presents to everyone on the nice list. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle O’Neill hands over the approved ‘nice list’ to Santa. First Minster Michelle O\u2019Neill had an unexpected visitor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[35745,1611,1434,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-652848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-jessica-rice","10":"tag-michelle-oneill","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115776039881064423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}