IT’S GOOD FRIDAY, a day when Catholics abstain from eating meat.

It’s one religious tradition that has survived in Ireland among a wider audience, including lapsed Catholics and people of other or no faith in Ireland.

Strictly speaking, the practice applies to more days than simply Good Friday – let’s not forget that the Catholic Church in Ireland banned eating meat on all Fridays until 1970 – but this is the one day that more people will take part.

And for many, that means a trip to the chipper for fish and chips.

So today we’re asking: Are you getting chipper tonight?

Poll Results:

No - just, no (6585)

No, but I'll still have fish for dinner (3261)

Yes (2570)

I wasn't going to but you're after putting the idea in my head (2057)

No, but I'm still abstaining from meat (1512)

Yes
I wasn't going to but you're after putting the idea in my head
No, but I'll still have fish for dinner
No, but I'm still abstaining from meat
No - just, no

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