Dear Editor, Congratulations to Maria Byrne for her piece Parents can avoid First Communion financial pressures (IC 13/3/14). Right-minded parents will surely take note of the sentiments conveyed in the piece and put the true value and meaning to the fore on their child’s special day without a need for ostentatious displays that bring nothing to the sacrament.
Sadly, however, I expect others, in defiance of austerity, to pull out all the stops, and not a few bottles of fake tan, once again this ‘Communion season’ to cheapen a sanctified time.
Yours etc.,
Mary Costello,
Rathmines,
Dublin 6.