Christmas In The City Has Started - Before Halloween
Dubliners are still getting ready for Halloween but Christmas in the city has already begun.
It might be the most wonderful time of the year - but it's two months away, and we haven't had a chance to trick or treat and scare our friends yet.
Work has started on putting the lights up on Grafton Street and Henry Street but why is it happening so early.
Well it's a very simple explanation - Clyde Carroll from business group Dublin Town says "we're getting ready for Christmas. We're not actually switching on we're just putting them up. The reason for that is it takes 20 guys, working 200 hours and they can only work at night time, to put up the lights. We have to have the city ready for November 13th."
It takes alot of lights to do up the city - 4.5 kilometres worth or the distance from O'Connell Street to Dolphins Barn.
Clyde says there's alot of light bulbs involved.
"In Dublin City's case it takes a million light bulbs. We've got 160 crossover on 30 streets. Grafton Street alone has 47 thousand lightbulbs. There's a light curtain that adorns Wicklow Street, there's 150 thousand light bulbs in that curtain alone".
They're not the only lights that are coming out of storage, Dublin City Council are getting ready to put Christmas trees up across the city - the main tree on O'Connell Street will be lit on November 27th.