A €50 note handed in to a Dublin off licence was found to be hiding a lovely old Holy Communion message.
Dublin student Jack Riley was taken aback when he found the poignant note.
Jack was working in The Icebox in Balbriggan when a customer paid for his cans with a seemingly innocuous €50 - without knowing that it had once doubled as a Holy Communion card.
It read: "To Eve, on your First Holy Communion, from Terry."
Jack immediately took to Twitter to help Eve trace the whereabouts of her communion money, not knowing that the picture would quickly go viral.
He tweeted: "Hello Eve, your communion present wound up in the till in the offo."
When asked by a concerned citizen if The Icebox accepted the tampered note, Jack joked that he was "just happy someone paid for something", while another person remarked that the handwriting bore a striking resemblance to their dad's.
Jack told Dublin Live that he found it hilarious that the communion money ended up in the off licence.
He said: "I spotted the message and had a laugh about it with the customer handing it to me.
"I thought it was ironic that despite the message being clearly for a kid making their communion, it would end up being spent on cans.
"The customer had a good laugh about it. They said it hadn't anything to do with them and they didn't notice the message at first."
Jack was blown away by the reaction on social media, saying: "I don't have much of an impact on Twitter as is, but people started to find levels to it.
"Some people said it was the most Irish thing they've seen and some people started noticing the handwriting is much like every aulfella's handwriting out there.
"I think it says a lot about Irish culture with the association of the First Holy Communion and then it being spent on cans.
"If there's two Irish things in this world, it's your First Holy Communion and a bag of cans, and the meeting of the two things in middle just screams Ireland."
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