Gallery: Christmas Day

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)

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)

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

Emily Cleodie celebrating Christmas with her niece

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

Christmas in the Moran household (Credit: Julieann Moran)

Christmas in Ontario, Canada (Credit: Conor Hurley)

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

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

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

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

Sunrise over Dún Laoghaire (Credit: Michael Holden)

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)

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)

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)

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

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