Christmas Q&A - Cllr Hazel Smyth

What are your favourite Christmas film and song?

My favourite Christmas film is Miracle on 34th Street and my favourite song is All I want for Christmas is You.

Who cooks Christmas dinner in your house?

My brother-in-law this year but usually my younger sister and me.

What’s your favourite part?

Dinner with the decorations, music and cracker jokes/games.

Do you have any family Christmas traditions?

Chinese on Christmas Eve, Mass on Christmas morning, dinner, board games and Christmas movies.

What’s your best Christmas memory?

My sister getting engaged on Christmas morning and all the family being together on Christmas morning.

How do you spend Christmas afternoon?

Exchanging gifts, dinner and board games.

Are you an organised shopper or a Christmas Eve one?

Organised. I can’t deal with the crowds of Christmas shoppers!

• Cllr Hazel Smyth is mayor of Mullingar Kinnegad Municipal District.