Coming home for Christmas? Tell us what you are most looking forward to

More than a million Irish people will be travelling across the globe to spend Christmas with their loved ones

Roxanna Allen from Dun Laoghaire (centre) embraces her daughters Nisha Krywonis (left) from Colorado and Sophie Krywonis (right) from Nepal during at Dublin Airport in December 2023. More than a million people are expected to travel through Dublin Airport over Christmas. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Roxanna Allen from Dun Laoghaire (centre) embraces her daughters Nisha Krywonis (left) from Colorado and Sophie Krywonis (right) from Nepal during at Dublin Airport in December 2023. More than a million people are expected to travel through Dublin Airport over Christmas. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Over the coming days Dublin Airport will once again look like a real-life scene from Love Actually, with thousands of families reuniting to celebrate Christmas together.

Last year 1.5 million people passed through the airport over Christmas with similar numbers expected to travel this year.

If you are one of the many Irish people planning to travel home for Christmas, we’d like to hear your story.

What makes Christmas at home - even if ‘home’ is outside Ireland - so special, and what aspect are you most looking forward to?

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We would also like to hear stories of people preparing to welcome visitors - what you are most excited about?

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