Sometimes, the truth is far stranger than anything you’ll see on television.
Saoirse Ní Scanláin has shared this text message that she received from her mam after a particularly turbulent Easter Vigil.
It involves a flaming barrel, a cathedral filled with smoke, sparks flying everywhere and one poor parishioner suffering a seizure.
As Saoirse tells us, “My dad was in charge of lighting the fire outside the church from which the candle is lit and thing went downhill from there.”
You might say that. Read on…
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