“Are you going in to watch?” a steward asked, almost beckoning a woman into a designated area for a little-publicised event on Mary Street in Dublin city centre late on Thursday.

“Nah, we’re going straight to Penneys,” she replied.

Passersby in the background stopped and glared at a stage surrounded by barricades in confusion, asking stewards: “What’s going on?”

Some, possibly unimpressed with the answer that the mysterious event was the turning on of the Christmas lights, went on about their business as usual, while

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