Pic: You won’t see a Christmas Tree anything like this one in a Mary I student house in Limerick

They deserve top marks for effort in fairness, but that warm feeling you’re getting looking at this ‘tree’ is because it’s probably also a giant fire hazard.

College students enjoy Christmas as much as everyone else, but because of the need to save a few quid for post-exam parties, pre-exam parties, the journey home for Christmas, presents etc. some of them have to cut festive costs elsewhere, like on the Christmas tree itself, for example. Determined that their house would not have a giant Christmas tree-shaped void in the corner, these unidentified female 2^nd year students from the Mary I college in Limerick improvised with the most makeshift Christmas tree you’ll see over the next few weeks. Tree, in fact, mightn’t be the most appropriate word to use here because, as you'll see above, there is no actual tree here or no hint of anything like it, merely what looks like a block of wood, on top of which is perched a traffic cone wrapped in Christmas tree lights with a Santa hat on top. Like we said, the girls deserve top marks for effort but we would be more than slightly concerned about the lights making contact with that we imagine is a pretty flammable Santa hat towards the top. But hey, if it gets them in the Christmas spirit that’s all that matters and at least they don’t have to worry about cleaning up pine needles when taking it down in the New Year. And we won't ask them where they got the traffic cone from either. Hat-tip to Fintan Walsh for sending this one our way