‘Super Low Key’ Girls Xmas Meet Up Somehow Costs €427

AN ANNUAL Xmas get together over a ‘super low key’ lunch among a group of friends is dangerously spiralling into a ‘massive ball ache’ thanks to the pricey organising habits and notions addiction of one Marie McGrath (32).

“I’ve Christmas with two kids to be paying for, Shauna and Michelle are saving for houses, how in the name of the baby Jesus is this costing this much?” said Patricia Farley, in a separate WhatsApp group set up to bitch about McGrath.

Running for over the past 7 years and always taking place over a brief lunch in Dublin during a workday given everyone’s busy schedules over the Christmas, Type A McGrath has successfully strong-armed the group into buckling to her demands and a two-night stay in Galway.

“Galway doesn’t really suit me,” remarked Niamh Sullivan, the only one of the girls still living In Waterford, whose concerns were directly addressed by McGrath in the form of sending a link to €90 elf costumes everyone is now required to wear.

A secret Santa with a budget of €150, a €60 bottomless brunch with a non-refundable deposit and staying in a 4-star hotel with a spa they won’t have time to use are among the many concerns the group have.

“Don’t be silly, what are we? Penniless students,” McGrath responded to a suggestion to book a cheap hostel while omitting the fact the cost of the ‘lunch’ has now topped €658 excluding any money spent while in Galway.

“They have a special offer on in the hotel where if you book the luxury suites they give you a festive cocktail for €20 extra but still – makes sense to make a fuss so it’s not just a boring get together, oh and then have that fake snow that gives you pink eye if it gets within 2 feet of your face,” enthused McGrath, who will have to be deposed from her organising role in a bloody coup.

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