It's Christmas again. Welcome to the Red Lions review of the year and things worked out so well for us last year that we've invited three of our guests back again and added two more well-known names into the mix. So first of all, it's welcome back to Professor Deirdre Heenan, Newton Emerson and Tim McGarry, who's become a Red Lines regular at this stage. We've also brought along someone Tim knows very well,

his co-presenter on the long and the short of it, Dr David Hume. Welcome David. And completing our

line-up, who better than our political correspondent, Gareth Gordon, whose annual A to Z of Northern Ireland

politics is always one of the top reads on the BBC News NI website over the Christmas holidays.

Do you know, Garth, when it's going up this year?

I'm tempted to tell you to ask Sir Geoffrey Donaldson.

It'll go up shortly before Christmas Day or shortly after Christmas Day.

I've left the D.

Currently, it's D for Dolly.

Does anybody know why it's D for Dolly? which does anybody know why it's D for Dolly?

Jim Shannon, the Stranford DUPMP, that's his wife's favourite song. I will always love you

and he laid down an early day motion at Westminster, which caused a lot of merriment.

It's not the funniest thing Jim Shannon has said in Westminster this year.

No, did he not compare squirrels to Hamas as well?

He said that the grey squirrel were the Hamas of the squirrel world.

So anyway, that trumps Dolly.

So D. Dee is left.

It's flexible.

If Dolly doesn't make it, it'll be D for deal. So we'll wait

to see. And that's the scale of the

rewriting you reckon, you hope?

I hope so.

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