So who's going to see the Pope?

Sammy2012 · 26-08-2018 4:46pm

Why would someone waste so much of their time to order so many tickets? Pathetic!

Hitman3000 · 26-08-2018 4:48pm

Sammy2012 wrote:

Why would someone waste so much of their time to order so many tickets? Pathetic!

Actually it can be done in less than 5 minutes.

Try_harder · 26-08-2018 4:48pm

Did Ed Sheehan pull bigger numbers?

Discodog · 26-08-2018 4:48pm

Sammy2012 wrote: »

Why would someone waste so much of their time to order so many tickets? Pathetic!

Because it's a way to protest. Their actions didn't deny others tickets. Nothing speaks louder that huge empty spaces.

Guy:Incognito · 26-08-2018 4:49pm

Sammy2012 wrote: »

Why would someone waste so much of their time to order so many tickets? Pathetic!

Could be worse. He could have wasted a whole afternoon trekking to the Phoenix park for mass.

Try_harder · 26-08-2018 4:49pm

6 of my family went to Ed Sheeran, 1 to the pope

Strazdas · 26-08-2018 4:51pm

Disc wrote: »

Because it's a way to protest. Their actions didn't deny others tickets. Nothing speaks louder that huge empty spaces.

Which must be very frustrating for the protesters. All that effort and it was never going to be a full house anyway....became an empty gesture.

Billy86 · 26-08-2018 4:52pm

erica74 wrote: »

Loads of excuses being thrown around:pac:
Are people afraid to just say that many many people hate the catholic church and everything related to it and there are far less catholics in Ireland now?

There are many that hate the RCC, but to be honest I think we're more at a point now where the majority simply just don't care.

Plague Maiden · 26-08-2018 4:54pm

Try_harder wrote: »

6 of my family went to Ed Sheeran, 1 to the pope

The Pope has better tunes though.

road_high · 26-08-2018 4:54pm

Strazdas wrote: »

Which must be very frustrating for the protesters. All that effort and it was never going to be a full house anyway....became an empty gesture.

I’m hardly pro RCC but that was actually a very nasty, petty stunt. Let people go if they wanted to. They mightn’t have wanted to go but no point blocking others from doing so

Varta · 26-08-2018 4:54pm

Watching people walking the roads this morning to the park it was obvious that they only required the footpaths. Closing so many roads and putting locals on lockdown was way over the top. Ireland has changed. The air seems somehow fresher today.

Plague Maiden · 26-08-2018 4:54pm

Ten Pin wrote: »

Better music from the Pope

Boom boom

You beat me to it.

Strazdas · 26-08-2018 4:55pm

Billy86 wrote: »

There are many that hate the RCC, but to be honest I think we're more at a point now where the majority simply just don't care.

Yes indeed, I think too the RCC haters are totally over-represented on this forum....the vast majority of the population are just getting on with their lives.

ANDREWMUFC · 26-08-2018 4:55pm

JESSUUUSSSS CHRIST, YOU ARE MA LIFEEEEE DUDUDUD

road_high · 26-08-2018 4:56pm

Back in 1979 you’d have had very few foreign nationals in attendance. If they hadn't them all today it would have been dismal

Hitman3000 · 26-08-2018 4:56pm

Strazdas wrote:

Which must be very frustrating for the protesters. All that effort and it was never going to be a full house anyway....became an empty gesture.

Actually seeing such a poor turnout and the large numbers at the garden of remembrance is heart warming.

Allinall · 26-08-2018 4:57pm

Varta wrote: »

Watching people walking the roads this morning to the park it was obvious that they only required the footpaths. Closing so many roads and putting locals on lockdown was way over the top. Ireland has changed. The air seems somehow fresher today.

I’m a local and there was no “lockdown”.

I was able to go and return twice by car.

Spanish Eyes · 26-08-2018 4:57pm

Is it really necessary to close the streets until 11pm tonight?

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 26-08-2018 5:00pm

appledrop wrote: »

Very few people going to see the Pope by the looks of it. The weather will be used as the excuse but even yesterday when lovely day very few lined the streets in city centre.

Exactly. The weather was perfect for going to see him yesterday.

road_high · 26-08-2018 5:02pm

They’re all grabbing the flowers!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 26-08-2018 5:02pm

Try_harder wrote: »

Did Ed Sheehan pull bigger numbers?

Almost certainly.

Irish Kings · 26-08-2018 5:02pm

Hitman3000 wrote: »

Actually seeing such a poor turnout and the large numbers at the garden of remembrance is heart warming.

how many people turned up for the protest, must be 3-400 thousand ?

Kermit.de.frog · 26-08-2018 5:03pm

https://twitter.com/declanganley/status/1033746239525986307

Strazdas · 26-08-2018 5:04pm

road_high wrote: »

Back in 1979 you’d have had very few foreign nationals in attendance. If they hadn't them all today it would have been dismal

Brenda Power was on Sky News earlier and said comparisons with 1979 are probably very unfair anyway. An attendance of 1m or 1.5m people in one place was an absolute freakish and one off event in Irish history and everything would suffer in comparison.

In 2018, there is nothing whatsoever that would make 1m or 1.5m people gather in one place in Dublin : religious, atheist or anything else.

Allinall · 26-08-2018 5:04pm

Irish Kings wrote: »

how many people turned up for the protest, must be 3-400 thousand ?

It wasn’t a protest, apparently.

I heard from a reliable source that there was about 500 there.

Billy86 · 26-08-2018 5:05pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/declanganley/status/1033746239525986307

Was it him that claimed he would feck off into the wilderness if he didn't get his way in the 8th referendum, or one of the other ones?

alan partridge aha · 26-08-2018 5:06pm

Allinall wrote: »

It wasn’t a protest, apparently.

I heard from a reliable source that there was about 500 there.

Oh Jeepers is that all, poor COG will be crying into his cornflakes.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 26-08-2018 5:06pm

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

https://twitter.com/declanganley/status/1033746239525986307

His tweets are always a joy to read.

I don’t agree with the whole business of protestors block-booking tickets but it’s not fraud. Tickets can be booked and not used.

Hitman3000 · 26-08-2018 5:07pm

Irish Kings wrote:

how many people turned up for the protest, must be 3-400 thousand ?

Saw the article on the examiner site. Several thousand, small turnout in Tuam but symbolic all the same. Fair play to Catherine Corless.

Sammy2012 · 26-08-2018 5:07pm

Why would you bother though? If people want to go so what? Let them on. Yes the church did awful things in the past but if people want to go and celebrate mass with the pope let them on. People are on about the waste of money that the whole thing was but if they honestly believe that the money would have been spent on something useful they are more niave than I thought? We currently have MASSIVE social problems in this country and attending a mass in the Phoenix park is nowhere near the top of the list. Why are people not out protesting against waiting lists? Children who are waiting years for operations/therapies? The trolley crisis? The homeless crisis? The housing crisis? The government have so much more to answer for currently in this country than an 81 year old man. People really need to wake up about is actually going on in this country today???!!! It doesn't mean that the church shouldn't answer for what they have done in the past but many people have been abused in one way or another from other members of society includong their own family members over the years so it's not only the church who has questions to answer here.

So who's going to see the Pope?

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