When we think of Communion season, we think of happy little girls in frilly white dresses and boys in their Sunday best - we don’t associate this religious celebration with sozzled parents.

Children received an average of €570 for making their First Communion this year — with parents shelling out almost €850 on the day.

Marius Lubys, the husband of Jolanta and father of Enrika, told how they had married in 2004 in Lithuania and Enrika had been born in February 2005.

ON my Communion Day, I was handed my dress.

WHEN Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh’s son, Comhghal, made his First Holy Communion, he wanted to look like James Bond.