Lynn Rusk

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The closure has left thousands of Irish people planning to travel through the port to Ireland for Christmas scrambling for alternative transport.

“I’ve worked so many Christmases so when you actually have the opportunity to have a Christmas off, you don’t know how many years it’s going to come before you have another one off, you have to spend it with your family"

The two nurses said they usually work over Christmas so they were determined to make it home to family

Stena Line said it had been 'working hard to provide alternative travel arrangements for customers'

A nurse has been forced to plan out a 600 mile round trip to drop her partner off home with their dog after ferry services from one port in the UK

Irish passengers who had planned to travel home via the storm-damaged Holyhead ferry port this Christmas are having to make “costly” new arrangements due to its closure.

Two nurses are planning a marathon journey involving two ferry journeys, a flight, two lengthy car journeys in a borrowed car, with a dog for company, to make it home for the holidays

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