1D out-voted in head to head with Communion - Herald.ie

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Ralph Riegel and Kathryn Hayes – 11 October 2013 01:30 PM

PARENTS at a primary school have rejected a proposal to change the 2014 Holy Communion date because it clashed with a One Direction concert.

In a ballot of all 30 families whose children in second class are due to receive Holy Communion next year, the overwhelming majority voted to retain the original date of May 24.

It is understood the margin was almost nine to one.

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Three families, all of whose children had tickets for the gig in Dublin's Croke Park on May 24, had asked that the Holy Communion event be brought forward by three weeks to May 3.

Gaelscoil an Raithin in Dooradoyle, Limerick, decided, in the failure to agree a compromise between families, that a ballot of all parents was the fairest option.

Children were sent home with ballot papers on Wednesday evening, and yesterday the school confirmed that the result was overwhelmingly in favour of retaining the original Holy Communion date of May 24.

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