Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »
Mon 05 May 2009Shocking holy costs
WHAT'S THE STORY WITH THE COST OF FIRST COMMUNION?:LAST MONDAY morning there was a parade of young girls posing for photographs in Dublin’s Mountjoy Square. As the first warm sun of summer bounced off their dazzlingly white parasols, the little girls did little twirls and their proud parents beamed and snapped away at digital cameras.
Fast forward seven days and it is a racing certainty that the parasols have joined the dresses, shoes and all the other accessories in cupboards where they will attract no further attention, except perhaps from the moths who will feast on them in the years to come.
Choose a Subscription type - required
