WATCH: Trixie – the Galway turkey who just loves Christmas!

Trixie is the only turkey in Ireland who would vote for Christmas!

The luckiest turkey in the land will be spared the oven once more this December 25 – for the third year in a row.

And after the ordeal she has had this year, almost getting gobbled up by a fearsome fox, Galway’s favourite feathered friend deserves to be off the menu this festive season.

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Regular readers will recall that Trixie, a resident of St Mary’s nursing home in Shantalla in Galway city, was due to be cooked for residents’ dinner two Christmases ago.

But fate and a broken wing intervened to save Trixie from the Christmas chop – she was put on a course of antibiotics . . . and turkeys on medication cannot be eaten.

The residents then became very attached to Trixie and voted overwhelmingly to give her a reprieve again for Christmas 2014.

This year has been a particularly tough one for Trixie, who, having avoided death by cooking for two years in a row, almost fell victim to a fox, who attacked Trixie and her feathered friends.

Trixie suffered some damage in the attack but she has re-grown the feathers that were bitten off. And she won’t be getting stuffed this Christmas.

See full story in this week’s Connacht Tribune.