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On Christmas Eve, the door is left open for Mary and Joseph and bread and milk are left out for them. It is also considered as a symbol of hospitality. On 26th of December or St Stephen's Day, people indulge in football matches and conduct meetings. Children participate in the Wren Boys Procession, in which boys go from home to home carrying a fake wren on a stick, singing carols and playing musical instruments like violins, accordions, harmonicas and horns. They collect money 'for the starving wren', that of course they spend on themselves. Irish children put out sacks to receive presents from Santa rather than stockings and leave mince pies and a bottle of Guinness for him with the sack.
