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Gallery: Christmas Day

Updated: 23:44, Wednesday, 28 December 2011

A selection of readers' images from around the country and the world on Christmas Day.

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  • Pinenut and Petal have a great game of chase with their new Christmas toy in Graignamanagh, Co Kilkenny (Credit: Susan Suz)
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    Pinenut and Petal have a great game of chase with their new Christmas toy in Graignamanagh, Co Kilkenny (Credit: Susan Suz)

  • Waiting for dinner at 10.30am? Young Grace from Co Tyrone has a lot to learn about the Christmas Day itinerary (Credit: Jonathan Walsh)
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    Waiting for dinner at 10.30am? Young Grace from Co Tyrone has a lot to learn about the Christmas Day itinerary (Credit: Jonathan Walsh)

  • Aughnamullen East Pipe Band playing outside mass in Aughnamullen, Co Monaghan (Credit: Aodhan Ó Riordáin)
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    Aughnamullen East Pipe Band playing outside mass in Aughnamullen, Co Monaghan (Credit: Aodhan Ó Riordáin)

  • A calm day at the beach in Melbourne (Credit: John Edwards)
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    A calm day at the beach in Melbourne (Credit: John Edwards)

  • Aylward kids waiting for Santa in Brisbane, Australia (Credit: Roisin Dunne)
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    Aylward kids waiting for Santa in Brisbane, Australia (Credit: Roisin Dunne)

  • Emily Cleodie celebrating Christmas with her niece
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    Emily Cleodie celebrating Christmas with her niece

  • Christmas Day sunrise at the sundial in Blackrock, Co Louth (Credit: Jason McGee)
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    Christmas Day sunrise at the sundial in Blackrock, Co Louth (Credit: Jason McGee)

  • Christmas in the Moran household (Credit: Julieann Moran)
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    Christmas in the Moran household (Credit: Julieann Moran)

  • Christmas in Ontario, Canada (Credit: Conor Hurley)
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    Christmas in Ontario, Canada (Credit: Conor Hurley)

  • Ava and Granny's first Christmas together (Credit: Padraic Donnellan)
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    Ava and Granny's first Christmas together (Credit: Padraic Donnellan)

  • Sunrise over Delgany, Co Wicklow (Credit: Colin Acton)
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    Sunrise over Delgany, Co Wicklow (Credit: Colin Acton)

  • The scene at Portmarnock beach in Co Dublin today (Credit: Steven Mc Laughlin)
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    The scene at Portmarnock beach in Co Dublin today (Credit: Steven Mc Laughlin)

  • Food bags at the Homeless Dinner held in the RDS by the The Knights of Saint Columbanus
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    Food bags at the Homeless Dinner held in the RDS by the The Knights of Saint Columbanus

  • A toddler gets into the festive spirit (Credit: Deirdre O'Donoghue)
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    A toddler gets into the festive spirit (Credit: Deirdre O'Donoghue)

  • Sunrise over Dún Laoghaire (Credit: Michael Holden)
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    Sunrise over Dún Laoghaire (Credit: Michael Holden)

  • Lucy & Molly enjoying their new Christmas bowls (Credit: Agnes Freeman)
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    Lucy & Molly enjoying their new Christmas bowls (Credit: Agnes Freeman)

  • Seven-year-old Oscar begins to the tackle the Ninjago fire temple in 1,000 pieces jigsaw (Credit: Fiona McGuire)
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    Seven-year-old Oscar begins to the tackle the Ninjago fire temple in 1,000 pieces jigsaw (Credit: Fiona McGuire)

  • The youngest members of the McCarthy family from Glen, Co Donegal (Credit: Vajra Citta)
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    The youngest members of the McCarthy family from Glen, Co Donegal (Credit: Vajra Citta)

  • Two excited youngsters dress up for the day that's in it (Credit: Sinead Conlon)
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    Two excited youngsters dress up for the day that's in it (Credit: Sinead Conlon)

  • Looking out at Whidbey Island in Mukilteo, Washington state, USA (Credit: John Keane)
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    Looking out at Whidbey Island in Mukilteo, Washington state, USA (Credit: John Keane)

  • Christmas on a beach with San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in the background (Credit: Corkonian duo Séamus Prendergast and Shane Barry)
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    Christmas on a beach with San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge in the background (Credit: Corkonian duo Séamus Prendergast and Shane Barry)

  • A rather seasonal looking canal in Galway (Credit: Ciaran Pope)
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    A rather seasonal looking canal in Galway (Credit: Ciaran Pope)

  • A diver plunges into The Forty Foot in Dublin (Credit: Barbara McCarthy)
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    A diver plunges into The Forty Foot in Dublin (Credit: Barbara McCarthy)

  • Workers attach 288 new Waterford Crystal Triangles on the 2012 Times Square New Year's Eve Ball
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    Workers attach 288 new Waterford Crystal Triangles on the 2012 Times Square New Year's Eve Ball

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