What Da F to get son for xmas?

A bottle of 'Redbreast', aged 12 years, Irish whiskey.
A pipe and some good quality tobacco.
A Donegal tweed sportscoat.

Make a man out of him!

A paint brush and paint was pretty cool thing to have back in April. Maybe you could get him a sweeping brush.at 11 years I'm sure he'd have no bother using it.

You could give it to him early,like next Monday morning. 1st day of school closed.unions will likely get their way and have school's shut for remainder of year anyway,so he'd have the whole place and much more swept.

This is just a smallish gift but if he likes sport you could get him a baseball cap with his favourite team on it. Once seen as a very 'yank' thing a lot more kids and Irish people in general are wearing them now. They are very useful for keeping the rain off (which is why it's surprising to me it's taken so long for them to catch on here, but then Irish people have always had a strange complex about hats, scarves, umbrellas, basically any useful accessory). And the sun for those 3 days a year we get it. Handy too to pop it on when you dont feel like combing your hair.

Fanatics UK, JD sports or the teams official online store will have them.

Get New Era brand they're the best, Nike ones are good too. Snapbacks or velcro/adjustable strap ones will fit any size head. He'll probably fit the adult size fine unless he's on the small size for a 12 year old.

Wool/beanie hats are good for winter too but they tend to get lost easily as they are removed indoors so I wouldn't spend more than a 5er on one for a 12 year old.

While apple watches etc have become popular a young man should own a half decent watch, a normal one that just tells the time and doesn't need to be charged. Timex do good quality ones for reasonable prices, the Timex EU site has them. The digital T80 is cool. he's possibly too young to appreciate the retro vibe but I think any 12 year old boy would like the black Pac man one that plays the video game tune, they also have analog ones like the expedition, navi and weekender too which are classics but a bit dearer. Just dont go over 38 mm for a boy his size.

Some useful techie type stocking stuffers: extra long 2 metre phone charging cable or USB power bank, wireless mouse or mouse and keyboard set for laptop.

A few years ago we got my niece a game called 'Don't be a Donkey' and we all played it at Christmas that year and last and it was great fun we all played it, we saw it on one of those toy review programs. It involves cards, wearing donkey ears and nose and diving for plastic carrots to avoid being the donkey. Highly recommend.