Papal Visit to Ireland

[BennyCake]

Desperation in Mayo as they get the Pope to sign a jersey to attempt to lift the curse!

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1033659822208692224/video/1

Mayo for Sam 2019, then.

[gerrykeegan]

Just back in from seeing him in the Park. It didn't seem like there was half a million people there. In our section where were maybe 30. It could have held 150 or more. Did they give any attendance figures

[BennyCake]

Just back in from seeing him in the Park. It didn't seem like there was half a million people there. In our section where were maybe 30. It could have held 150 or more. Did they give any attendance figures

Bbc reported 300,000

[screenexile]

Just back in from seeing him in the Park. It didn't seem like there was half a million people there. In our section where were maybe 30. It could have held 150 or more. Did they give any attendance figures

Bbc reported 300,000

Read 130,000'somewhere else...

Did I read somewhere that protestors hoovered up thousands of tickets??

[sid waddell]

Just back in from seeing him in the Park. It didn't seem like there was half a million people there. In our section where were maybe 30. It could have held 150 or more. Did they give any attendance figures

Bbc reported 300,000

Closer to 3,000 than 300,000.

[Captain Obvious]

Very scattered crowd looking at the overhead pictures. Near 2 hours of boring mass can imagine many in attendance nodded off.

[Owen Brannigan]

Seems like 130,000 attended:

https://www.donegalnow.com/news/numbers-phoenix-park-well-expectations-papal-mass-estimates-put-crowd-130000/244995

[armaghniac]

This is not only protestors, this is people with tickets who couldn't be ars ed walking or getting wet. Yet there were probably another 100,000 who might have gone with those tickets.

[Syferus]

This is not only protestors, this is people with tickets who couldn't be ars ed walking or getting wet. Yet there were probably another 100,000 who might have gone with those tickets.

Proof?

[BennyCake]

Why get tickets and not attend in protest? Couldn't they just er, not attend?

[Lotto]

One of the most disappointing things for me was his failure to speak, or even say sorry, in English.  His message was fine but I didn't hear it from him, I heard it from someone telling me what he had said yet the man was able to read some bits in English.  Was there anything As Gaeilge?

[armaghniac]

This is not only protestors, this is people with tickets who couldn't be ars ed walking or getting wet. Yet there were probably another 100,000 who might have gone with those tickets.

Proof?

There were hundreds of thousands at mass today, some of those might have gone. But unless I give you a list of their names no doubt you'll argue with me anyway.

[Owen Brannigan]

Those most likely to go were the late middle aged and elderly who are the core of the Catholic church in Ireland. All of the logistical advice and warnings about being able to walk 5Km, sit outside for several hours and then walk 5Km back to your transport. Add a long journey to and from Dublin and you eliminate a considerable number of potential attendees.

There was none of this health and safety nonsense in 1979.

[armaghniac]

Those most likely to go were the late middle aged and elderly who are the core of the Catholic church in Ireland. All of the logistical advice and warnings about being able to walk 5Km, sit outside for several hours and then walk 5Km back to your transport. Add a long journey to and from Dublin and you eliminate a considerable number of potential attendees.

There was none of this health and safety nonsense in 1979.

If they only expected 150,000 then the buses could have parked closer. Not great organisation, all in all.

[Syferus]

This is not only protestors, this is people with tickets who couldn't be ars ed walking or getting wet. Yet there were probably another 100,000 who might have gone with those tickets.

Proof?

There were hundreds of thousands at mass today, some of those might have gone. But unless I give you a list of their names no doubt you'll argue with me anyway.

So you just grabbed a number that sounded good from your arse, then?