A priest Newshub spoke to asked for any publication of the photograph to be heavily censored due to the language.

He said the church had contacted the police about the tagging and it will be gone soon.

A member of the public Newshub spoke to said they noticed the graffiti while they were dropping children off at school on Thursday morning.

"It just really makes my blood boil and to put that basically at the school, my sons learnt quite a few new words now and I find that disgusting."