Weird birthday traditions of the world include covering the birthday person in flour (Caribbean), pulling on earlobes (Hungary), smearing noses with butter (Canada), assembling fairy bread (Australia) or shaving heads and holding over a fire pit (India).

Here at Books@One, Louisburgh, County Mayo, we want to blaze the trail for our own fabulous birthday traditions and celebrations.

As previously highlighted, at the height of madness, in the depths of a downturn, the idea for Books@One was hatched. Against all odds the dark horse of all community and s...