NOT a Disassociated Press story I swear :)

irish1967

Donegal Town hanging tight to Christmas lights

The Donegal Town Community Chamber has come up with a novel way of beating the January blues.
That festive feeling will be lingering that little longer in the town after it was decided to leave some of the Christmas lights on trees around the Diamond.
Businessess are hopeful that the illuminations may attract shoppers to the town.
Ernan McGettigan from the Community Chamber says it’s all about letting people know Donegal Town is open for business.


:eek:

irish1967

I don't know but I was driving through a town with it's Christmas lights still up I would think .... Jaysus this town must be dead ... Or .... They couldn't afford to have them taken down. I'm sorry but the logic in the story just doesn't add up for me.

Redsoxfan

irish1967 wrote: »

I'm sorry but the logic in the story just doesn't add up for me.

Well, that's folk from South of the Gap for you!

muffler

Strange one indeed and as stated - illogical.

irish1967

Maybe after the musical festival this year they could leave the stage up for a month.

Mint Sauce

sounds just like something donegal town would pull

Aligator Farmer

So are the lights on all the time, or just evenings, or weekends?

How do they look?

North_West_Art

I think that in another couple of weeks people might get tired of looking at them... having said that, lights are always an attractive feature, so long as they get rid of the manger, wreaths, crosses, stars, santas etc etc and just leave up the mini lights, then it would make sense. They do this in alot of places already

ednwireland

manger and tree down when the ice melted just left the blue lights and white lights on some of the trees in the diamond

irish1967

What percentage of people passing through the diamond will think
a. Why are the Christmas lights still up ?
b. Oh those lights look lovely. I feel so much happier for seeing them.

byte

I'm sure I saw some mention of them in the Donegal Times today.

Mint Sauce

irish1967 wrote: »

What percentage of people passing through the diamond will think
a. Why are the Christmas lights still up ?
b. Oh those lights look lovely. I feel so much happier for seeing them.

i'll take an A please bob

Mint Sauce

Originally Posted by irish1967
What percentage of people passing through the diamond will think
a. Why are the Christmas lights still up ?
b. Oh those lights look lovely. I feel so much happier for seeing them.

arrived into town last night, breifly forgot about this thread, first thing i thought was, 'why are the lights still up?'

think we have a conclusion

North_West_Art

I was standing at the doorway of the Abbey hotel last night, and remembered this thread, I see the wisdom now in taking them down... its half hearted looking... theres better ways to brighten up the town

Mint Sauce

was in the town last night, take the lights down NOW, they just look stupid at this point

byte

Who or what pays for the electricity usage on these? I'd assume it's the chamber?

North_West_Art

byte wrote: »

Who or what pays for the electricity usage on these? I'd assume it's the chamber?

I think they have hooked up all the exercise machines in the Central Hotel to a generator