World's Most Protective Dad? See What a Man Did to Scare Boys Away From His Daughter (Photos)

 

 

A father who couldn't refuse his daughter's request to allow her attend her first disco has done something to send a warning to all who may try to come near her.

 

The man, Joe Farrelly, decided to allow his 12-year-old daughter Ella to attend her first dance, but the protective dad from County Meath, Ireland, summed up the feelings of protective parents everywhere by posing alongside her jokingly wielding a gun - along with her uncles.

 

The image, designed to send out a lighthearted warning to boys who might approach his daughter quickly attracted more than 30,000 likes after Joe shared it on the Unilad Facebook page.

 

Ella, who was going to her first local disco at a local sports hall, posed with her father, and two uncles Christopher and Jason - who is also her godfather - ahead of the landmark occasion.

 

For the family portrait Joe casually slung a clay pigeon shooting rifle over his shoulder and Jason wielded a golf club. Christopher who was brandishing a sledgehammer, also raised his fist at the camera in a threatening gesture, as if to ward off any boys who might think of approaching his niece. 

 

Meanwhile Ella, who is in her final year of junior school, is all smiles ahead of her big night. Dressed in a pretty navy dress with grey Converse shoes and white socks, her fresh-faced appearance is in contrast to her rather threatening-looking band of relatives.

 

 

However while they may look scary, Joe says his gun is more used for clay pigeon shooting than anything else - and said the photo was taken 'for the craic'.  

 

The protective dad himself usually helps to organise the teenage disco at the GAA hall in Waterstown. And he admits that the antics he's witnessed made him cautious about his daughter attending.  

 

Speaking with the Irish Independent, he said: 'The biggest problem is that from helping out at those discos I know what happens. Maybe if I didn't I wouldn't be so bad,'

 

But on this occasion Ella insisted that she wouldn't want her dad cramping her style and he 'wasn't allowed' to go. So her uncle Christopher stepped in, offering to supervise the event attended by his niece and most of her class at school. 

 

'We couldn't hold her back. We got the whole "I'll be the only one not going" bit,' Joe said. 

 

He admitted it was tough to watch Ella, the older of his two daughters, grow up and said it had happened all too quickly.   

 

Ella seemed to take the whol thing in good spirits and rather than being embarrassed by her dad's sense of humour, Joe said she found the photo 'hilarious