Chai Brady
A Dublin pub which facilitated parents who weren’t allowed to attend their children’s Confirmations due to Covid-19 by livestreaming the Mass on their TVs is gearing up to host more family members for Communions next week.
The Kingswood Lodge, which is across the road from the parish church, helped parents mark the occasion as a community last week by opening early and providing tea, coffee and scones, they also asked people to donate to the local community centre and raised €360.
Manager Pius O’Connell said there was a “very good atmosphere”.
“There was more of a community spirit. The Communions and the Confirmations, they’re short, they’re less than an hour, so the whole idea of dropping your child down and having to head home…instead they could come straight in to us and in less than an hour they could head out the door and collect their child, it made things a bit simpler.”
There was a mixed response to the initiative according to an social media poll conducted by The Irish Catholic, with a third describing it as a ‘novel solution’ and two thirds saying it was ‘disrespectful’.