Cardiff boss Lennie Lawrence admits there is no chance of signing Manchester United winger Luke Chadwick in the next fortnight - but insists he is still confident of completing a deal.
The many and varied rites associated with the fortnight-long holiday may sound innocent enough: gift-giving, trick-or-treating, fireworks, open-air picnics, the eating of special foods and the display of symbols of abundance such as goldfish, coloured eggs, potted plants and shiny coins.
MLAs were also told that an abattoir in Lurgan, County Armagh which had been legally slaughtering horses - about 40 per fortnight - to send to the European market (primarily Italy) had now stopped, as it did not want horsemeat in any way associated with the other meat it produced.