First Holy Communion celebrations in Ireland have gained a reputation for expensive dresses and limousines. But for the parents of one group of First Communicants, a concert by the popular boy band One Direction, due to take place in Dublin, was an even bigger day. When three families at the Gaelscoil an Ráithín Primary School in Limerick City whose children had tickets to the event discovered that the day of the concert, 24 May 2014, clashed with that of the children’s First Holy Communion, they requested that the latter’s date be changed. However, at a parents’ meeting on Tuesday last week, a number of other parents objected and it is understood that a heated exchange followed. As a result, the school decided to ballot parents on the issue. In a statemen