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CMU Beef Of The Week #178: One Direction v all that is holy
By Aly Barchi | Published on Friday 11 October 2013
One of the three trillion ways in which pop devils One Direction differ from Leonard Cohen is that, unlike him, they aren’t prepared to change the date of one of their shows for any reason, even if the show happens to clash with a holy day.
In 1D’s case, the religious ceremony in question is the first Holy Communion of a group of Limerick school children, which, it’s been discovered, falls on the same evening as One Direction’s May 2014 concert in Dublin. Perhaps this clash explains the slightly ‘biblical’ plague of snakes ringing the boys’ hotel the other day, who can say?
The scheduling conflict led to a number of parents of Year Two pupils at the Raheen Galescoil in Limerick, whose offspring all had tickets to see 1D play live at Dublin’s Croke Park on 24 May, to request that the Communion be moved so they could still attend the show. The Irish Independent newspaper reports that the request led to an “extremely heated” debate at the school earlier this week, where other parents reacted angrily to the proposal by the 1D-loving-children’s guardians. God should come before One Direction, you see.
“A lot of parents, who had no problem with the [communion] date, contacted the school subsequently to express their outrage at the (perceived) disrespect shown to the blessed sacrament”, a school source confirmed to the paper, whilst an official school spokesperson added: “Staff, parents and children of Gaelscoil an Raithin look forward to preparing for this very special celebration [I’m assuming they mean the Communion, not the 1D show] next May”.
Harry Styles and The Pope are yet to comment, so I guess the score is Catholicism: one, 1D: nil. Though saying that, 1D now have their own special day to celebrate their existence, whereas God mainly relies on celebrations of his son to stop the world in its tracks. So I’ll call it a draw.
