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Irish mothers are taking extreme measures to ensure their kids don't eat meat today

Heathens, all of you.

TODAY IS GOOD Friday, and this is enemy number one for Catholics everywhere:

Christmas dinner ... #roastham and seriously the best I've ever eaten!!!! #homemade #holidayfood #Christmas2015 Instagram / vavaloy Instagram / vavaloy / vavaloy

Mothers across Ireland are, as always, militant about meat consumption on Good Friday, and this year more of them than ever are taking steps to prevent their children from eating it.

Warning notes, manipulation, sabotage – we’ve seen it all.

This mam who left a ‘no meat’ note AND made sure her kids got a mass in

To all of you – Do not eat today! Only to be consumed after today! It’s Good Friday. 3pm be at the chapel!

This mam who outlawed smokey bacon crisps

This mam who left a hastily scribbled note on the ham

This mam who denied her own flesh and blood a chicken sandwich

This mam who actually picked the chicken out of a chicken curry

memmeh Facebook / OMGWACA Facebook / OMGWACA / OMGWACA

Think my memmeh wins for the most ridiculous lengths gone to in an attempt to keep me a good Catholic… I took my leftover chicken curry out of the fridge for lunch to find that she’d gone through it and removed every. Single. Piece.

This mam who put not one but three (printed) notices around the house

mamcollage Facebook / Laura Martin Facebook / Laura Martin / Laura Martin

And all the mams refusing to speak to their children for eating meat

Keep fighting the good fight, mams.

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Written by Valerie Loftus and posted on DailyEdge.ie

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    Jun 10th 2013, 11:23 AM

    What a cock up.

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    Jun 10th 2013, 6:05 PM

    I love a cock up

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    Jun 10th 2013, 11:44 AM

    Nothing like a good willy party! *RampantRabbitte

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    Jun 10th 2013, 11:55 AM

    Rampant-Pat-Rabbitte

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    Jun 10th 2013, 11:37 AM

    “Green fingered people” and “Bring your willies” … what type of community centre is this?!

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    Jun 10th 2013, 11:51 AM

    If they where brown fingered, then I’d be worried

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    Jun 10th 2013, 12:13 PM

    Maybe it’s just for uphill gardeners?…

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    Jun 10th 2013, 11:11 AM

    Thank you for a good laugh.

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    Jun 10th 2013, 11:13 AM

    Oh so we’re not having a willy throwing competition?

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    Jun 10th 2013, 12:11 PM

    … most politicians dont even have a pair of balls

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    Jun 10th 2013, 12:41 PM

    There’s quiet a few typos in Labours Pre election manifesto

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    I used to live in citywest but I had to get out of dodge when my neighbour began tethering their horses up to the street lights.

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    Jun 10th 2013, 12:15 PM

    Otherwise known as shitty west !!!

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    Jun 10th 2013, 12:09 PM

    Typo? Surely this is proper order to remind the TDs to bring their willies and act like real men, if it wasn’t circulated in the flyer most would forget or stay home running around their fancy homes doing the helicopter with their willies.

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    Jun 10th 2013, 11:09 AM

    …and your stab vest

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    Jun 10th 2013, 12:40 PM

    Surely most men don’t leave home with theirs?

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    Jun 10th 2013, 12:35 PM

    Zip up your ‘mickeys’

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    Jun 10th 2013, 12:16 PM

    Dicks!

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    Jun 10th 2013, 12:47 PM

    Well, if you say it with a rough Kerry accent….

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    Jun 10th 2013, 4:23 PM

    It’s a typo? What do I do with my willie if I want to go?

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    Jun 10th 2013, 1:23 PM

    it just gives me the wellies thinking about it..

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    Jun 10th 2013, 1:47 PM

    Labour currently give me the willies….

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    I think he needs a new graphic designer.

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    Jun 10th 2013, 1:40 PM

    Willie tossing competition is on the cards for him now

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    Jun 10th 2013, 1:54 PM

    Highly doubt that – they are tossers anyway…. :)

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    Jun 10th 2013, 2:57 PM

    Someone’s got ” Ann Summer’s ” on the mind.

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    Jun 10th 2013, 7:01 PM

    Labour Party looking for “Dicks” thought they had enough without advertising for more.

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    Jun 10th 2013, 5:51 PM

    Lots I could say but it would be rude :)

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    Jun 24th 2013, 1:30 PM

    They have taken everything from us! now they want our willies! lets see a show of hands!!

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    Jun 10th 2013, 2:16 PM

    It just goes to show the calibre of TD’s we have, mostly clots.

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