7 Easter Weekend Truths Every Irish Person Can Relate To

Jesus died for our sins. For every one of them. From that time that you stole a multi-pack of Snickers from a corner shop to when you coveted your neighbour's oxen, Jesus laid down his one and only life so that you could sin your little heart out. In celebration of this fact, we ritualistically eat a medically inadvisable amount of chocolate each year. But that's only a small piece of the overall Easter puzzle/pie/cake/collection of other small pieces:

1. The Easter Bunny

The Easter Bunny is a special kind of mythical creature that I always accepted even though my family never went to extreme lengths to. Does anyone know the truth about the Easter Bunny? How does he/she/ they actually work? How do they deliver all those eggs?

2. The Madness at School

Between the Easter egg hunt and the paper plates turned into a bunny face, you knew the craic was going to be had. As long as you didn't eat that PVA glue you were flying.

3. The Mass

If you ever want to Easter mass on a Sunday, not a Good Friday, then you'll know you have to kiss that giant dusty cross and sit through the longest mass of the year.

4. Developing A Chocolate Addiction

You've enough sweets to last you until Halloween but it's you're the goal to devour as many creme eggs as you can. There's always that one person who manages to make their chocolate last for months and they're someone you promise to cut out from your life.

The best things about Easter:
- Lindt Bunnies ?
- Mini Eggs ?
- Cadbury’s Creme Eggs ?
- Chocolate Nest Cakes ?
- Easter Eggs ?
- Mini Eggs...
- MINI EGGS ??

— The Beauty Kingdom (@BeautyKingdomUK) March 28, 2018

Just saw a woman in Tesco spend €180 on wine and Easter eggs and I wish her all the best

— saoirse (@saoirsegarland) March 29, 2018

5. Watching The Movies You'd Never Usually Watch

Oh look, The Passion of Christ is on! Let's waste the next four hours of our lives with this Mel Gibson masterpiece.

Happy Good Friday, Friends & Followers. ?? #goodfriday #easter2018 #easter #holiday #easteregg #irishcannabiscommunity ???☘️#Ireland pic.twitter.com/SlhC4WDdHp

— The Hemp Co Dublin (@DublinHempCo) March 30, 2018

6. The Poorly Timed Dinner

No, I can't eat this entire Sunday roast. I just ate three Sunday dinners worth of chocolate watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for the second time.

7. The Side Eye At People Who Seem To Believe This Is All Historically Accurate Which Leads To Plenty Of Family Rows

But we're willing to keep pretending as long as we have the time off.

In a more secular Ireland, we can buy booze on #GoodFriday. The ban was definitely outdated. But the logical next steps in a secular society, as in the US, are zero days off work for Easter and one or maybe two days off work for Christmas. Just putting it out there...

— Larry Donnelly (@LarryPDonnelly) March 30, 2018