Is Irish cream liqueur popular in the UK?

As everyone says, just at Christmas, normally. Then everyone's sick of it. It is a bit sweet and sickly, to be fair. *However* - if you have a bottle gathering dust, here's an idea for you. There's a little-known cocktail called a Pibroch. A Scottish girlfriend introduced me to it way back in the 1970s. You take a long glass, half fill it with crushed ice. Then put in a shot of good whisky (preferably a malt) half a shot of Drambuie and two shots of Bailey's. Now add chilled fresh cream. Double or single according to taste, until you have covered the ice. Give it a good stir, insert a straw and enjoy. Personally, I can happily do without the Drambuie. Just ice, whisky, Baileys's and some fresh cream will do me. One thing that put me off this cocktail... In Singapore, I had taken an unfinished glass into my bedroom. Put it on my bedside table and promptly fallen asleep. Later that night, I woke up. My mouth feeling a little dry. I reached out in the dark for my glass, and put it to my lips. Unfortunately, a very large cockroach had found it earlier, and fallen in. I can still remember those scrabbling insect legs clawing at my face in the dark.