Raise a glass - top ten toasts for Christmas and the New Year

I don't know how 9 of the above"toasts" originated, but #2 is probably an English translation of this Irish expression: "Go mbeimid beo an t-am seo arís". In Irish the word for "salute' is "beannacht" and that is also the word for "blessing". The Irish language includes many words and expressions that remind the speaker and listener of the existence and presence of God, but few prelates or priests have any interest in what could be said to be a 'holy language'.