Inniu 'Aoine an Chéasta' which I think means Friday of the Crucifixion.
'This seems to make more sense than 'Good Friday'. I'm thinking it wasn't such a 'good' day!

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I'm not long back from a passion play at the church.
My cousin Danny was Jesus, and my brother was one of the apostles.

My father always wanted to plant a ridge of spuds on Good Friday. It was good luck.
It had to be done before 3pm though.
Any more customs (nósanna) associated with Easter?

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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We had the stations of the cross through the middle of the town of Athlone. A very sizeable crowd walked from St. Peter's on the Connacht side to St. Mary's on the Leinster side. It was very nice and thankfully we had a dry day for it.

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Bí cinnte de go nglacfaidh triúr le gach aistriúchán a thabharfar.
Be sure to get three in agreement with a translation given.

We're lucky here if anyone recognizes it's Easter. It's almost politically incorrect to mention here that anyone might actually OBSERVE Easter.

In the church, thought, we've been quite busy. We read the Passion last Sunday. We had mass last night, with the foot washing and plainchant anthems. They had veneration of the cross and stations today, but I was busy picking up Anna. Tomorrow morning we'll be cleaning and decorating the church in anticipation of the Great Vigil tomorrow evening, which is really the crux of the whole thing.

Redwolf

Domhnach Cásca is Easter Sunday in Irish
Luan Cásca is Easter Monday in Irish

Then to move to the more commercial side, and more widely celebrated side, of the most important day in the Christian calendar.....

I knew that 'ubh' means egg and that 'uibheacha' means eggs. I presumed that my soon to be good friend - the tuiseal ginideach - would come into play and that Easter eggs in Irish would be something like, 'uibheacha Cásca', but was very unsure so I went to my much more reliable friend, De Baldy Instead of what I expected, I found what looks like two collective nouns for Easter eggs - 'cúbóg' and 'clúdóg'.

In English, we learn all kinds of collective nouns, but none nearly as cool as for Easter eggs.
Is anyone familiar with these terms?

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The "good" in "Good Friday" comes from an old pronunciation of "God" (it's the same thing that gave us "goodbye," which was originally "God be with you."

Redwolf the fount of useless information

According to FGB cúbóg is specifically a collection of Easter eggs while cludóg is just any clutch of eggs, I have heard the latter frequently