The rub of a relic

It seems Ireland is awash with relics at the moment. Just yesterday morning we heard the news of thousands flocking to visit a cut tree stump in the Parish Church at Rathkeale, Co. Limerick, that apparently resembles a statue of Our Lady.

Then yesterday lunchtime the our local Chip shop on Pearse street became the scene of the latest relic sighting. The image of the blessed virgin appeared encrusted in the bread crumbs of a spice burger!

It is rumoured that this was one of the last spice burgers in the shop as the manufacture Walsh Family Foods had gone out of business a few weeks before. At the news of this miracle people queued down the street to get a look at the burger before it was savagely consumed by a builder who had bought it with a single of chips for his lunch break.

The publicity also sparked the interest of catering wholesalers and retailers, who have placed sufficient orders with the company to justify a return to production of the burgers.