He insisted on the very strict regime of Lenten fasting in his diocese: the faithful could eat one meal and two ‘collations’ each day during the forty days before Easter. A collation was something like a biscuit taken with a cup of tea. Moyra Riordan, who ran the Greendoor coffee shop on Patrick Street in Cork, invented a huge biscuit, and most of the other bakers in the city copied it. The biscuits were known as Connie Dodgers. The law of God was not defied.
