What event in Ireland would get the highest attendance

Shedite27

Free tickets, capacity not an issue, what event would have the highest attendance of Irish-based* people in Ireland these days.

1.3m people reported to have shown up for the Pope in the 70's

Is there any musician/personality could top that?

Would a free All-Ireland final in a magical giant stadium?

* I'm saying Irish-based to exclude the Paddys Day parade which seems to be about 700k foreigners and 50k Irish-based

Gregor Samsa

Sounds like Garth Brooks could fill Leinster 15 times over if he was allowed.

banie01

500000 saw Munster beat the All Blacks in '78.

Mr.Crinklewood

Party when fuck1ng Cov*d ends

bucketybuck

Punch a politician day.

corner of hells

1.5 million in the GPO in 1916 fighting the British.

Amazing we lost , when you think about it.

Poorside

The 2 johnnies supporting Guns and Roses at the ploughing.

Quantum Erasure

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118340182#Comment_118340182

New years eve protest against NPHET ...

Strumms

Dublin vs Cork in a free all Ireland in a weird magical never ending stadium with limitless seating would be 500,000

fergiesfolly

Truth Festival featuring...

Gerry Adams admitting he was in the IRA.

Micheal Martin admitting he's being led a merry dance by Leo.

NPHET admitting they haven't a clue.

Ubbquittious

All father ted cast brought back from the dead for one last 4 hour episode acted out in real life on a stage with no cameras or recording equipment allowed.

Del2005

The North West 200 regularly gets 150,000 people. I'd say when we eventually are allowed out it'll get even more.

dxhound2005

Nobody is ever going to get near the 1.3 million in the Phoenix Park for the Pope. Not even another Pope. World wide it seems to be religion which gets the biggest crowds.

In January 2019, an estimated 120 million people gathered at the confluence of three holy rivers in India: the Ganges, the Yamuna, and the mythical Sarasvati. The occasion was the Kumbh Mela, a historic Hindu pilgrimage that occurs just once every 12 years. It is widely considered to be the largest gathering of humans on the planet (and can even be seen from space).

BurgerFace

Conor McGregor......one ankle chained and shackled, nose full off cocaine, Dublin jersey on, ......

Just within striking distance..... Ashling Thompson, Cork Jersey on, camann in hand, Beside her, 2 bags of cocaine.

Ashling has to tread carefully, however, there are traps that launch up knackers like the Bengal Tigers in Gladiator.

Croke Park is PACKED to the rafters as his snarling and her swings, connecting with that knucklehead go on....and on.

Billions around the world are transfixed as he launches forward. She swings and catches him on the shoulder and her hurley clatters against his head.

But losing her balance, she trips a trap door and two chained skangers emerge and lunge at her.

A quick thump to the jaw and they are vanquished.

McGregor looks balefully and grunts. Thompson, rattled, takes up position again.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118340579#Comment_118340579

Well the vaccine attendance was in the millions so maybe that would win

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118340863#Comment_118340863

Who counts these figures. Is it the same fellas who say a magic man is in the sky guiding us or maybe the fellas saying they definitely didn't touch any kids.

I find it absolutely unbelievable that 1/3 of the Irish population had the time, means or inclination to go to that mass in Phoenix Park. Just another heap of BS from "holy mother" church and it's cronies in the government of the times

Quantum Erasure

As a result of his visit, 10pc of boys born in Ireland in and around 1980 were named 'John Paul'.

https://www.independent.ie/life/how-john-paul-became-our-most-popular-boys-name-30624752.html

at least 17 million of them out there...

corner of hells

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Would never happen , the residents around Croke Park would never agree to it .

Viscount Aggro

A free dance music event in Phoenix Park.

Headline act, Swedish House Mafia.

That would bring out the crowds.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118340182#Comment_118340182

That party has been ongoing since the pubs re-opened

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341262#Comment_118341262

Obviously the population was smaller. We were a "good Catholic country" in those days. So there's your inclination.

Like attending Mass, you made the time for it, and as for getting there if you didnt have a car, hundreds of trains and buses were laid on from all corners of the country in a coordinated way not seen before or since.

The Guardian (1/10/1979). "On Saturday, there were 1.25 millions at Phoenix Park, Dublin, alone. This was an official, monitored, figure. Worshippers were given lapel stickers, and the 980,000 supply was exhausted two hours before the Pope arrived as thousands more still poured in."

Public flogging of Michael Martin.

mailforkev

Conor McGregor fighting Garth Brooks. Neven doing the catering.

Tom Mann Centuria

An event surrounding reunification of Ireland would be the biggest ever. You'd have millions on the streets and I don't think anything else would even come close.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341363#Comment_118341363

I suspect a significant proportion of the population wouldn’t give up watching the Late Late show for that. Who cares?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341363#Comment_118341363

And then the loyalist bombers strike

One big midnight mass

daheff

Late late toy show. Freebies ...one for everybody in the audience

barneygumble99

An all-you-can-eat/drink free Christmas dinner buffet cooked by that famous lad in the white apron that’s quite decent at cooking. Re-runs of Father Ted and Reeling in the Years on tv in the background and a big open fire lighting.

Montage of Feck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118340148#Comment_118340148

Why a fat bald musical irrelevance who hasn't put out anything new in three decades is so popular here is beyond me.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341503#Comment_118341503

Good excuse to go on a date with a close relative.

French Toast

Ploughing Championships is up there every year.

Pherekydes

If there was a rugby match between Man Utd and a team of celebrities then nearly all of the population would turn up. Except me. Unless you could guarantee Ronaldo would get spear tackled by Donnacha O'Callaghan.

Charles Babbage

More people went to the Aviva when it was a vaccination centre than any of these events

HBC08

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118340604#Comment_118340604

Would it fùck.

I presume you're talking football,Cork have an embarrassing football support,the worst in the country (closely followed by Galway)

A mud wrestling fight between Claire Byrne and Claire Brock! Corrrrrrrr!

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341262#Comment_118341262

I’m no fan of the church, but take a look at the panning shot of the crowd in this video. I’ve no problem at all believing that there were one-point-whatever million people there.

https://youtu.be/ilE3ZNmTpcU

I do remember being brought up Whitehall car park to see his motorcade coming down from the airport. All the roads were closed, and the entire route was absolutely thronged. Ours and every other house around had a Papal flag flying out of it. Like, the tricolour flags and bunting for Italia 1990 were nothing on this. It was absolutely nuts.

I can understand people who weren’t around at the time being skeptical of it all, but Ireland was a very, very different place back then .

growleaves

A religious awakening or revival or mass conversion of some kind or other, whether Christian or Islamic or something else, since cosmological and existential meaning speaks to people more deeply than entertainment and is more motivating.

Not entirely unrelated to the post above... aliens arriving in their spaceships. Dublin Port will be packed that day! :D

Badly Drunk Boy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341867#Comment_118341867

Ours and every other house around had a Papal flag flying out of it. Like, the tricolour flags and bunting for Italia 1990 were nothing on this. It was absolutely nuts.

I had family members working in the Irish Ropes factory at the time, who made a Papal special for the occasion, so for years after, we had a yellow and white clothes line. 😀

My mother and sister went to to the Phoenix Park to see the Pope, but I stayed at home and got into trouble through guilt-by-association when my best friend accidentally threw a stone through a neighbour's car window. The person he was aiming at had the audacity to duck out of the way so the window smashed!

Apothic_Red

British Open Portrush had 240,000 through the gates across the week

L1011

There's a significant amount of duplication in the Brooks attendance - people going 2x-5x. So a single gig in an infinite size stadium might not go anywhere near as high as you think from those five being sold out

Not sure who'd be able to sell out Croker more nights in a row. U2 probably still.

vriesmays

United Ireland celebrations.

Zebra3

Italia90 homecoming had some turn out.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118342436#Comment_118342436

Some moving statues?

mary 2021

Croke park converted to a coliseum like spectacle with politicians facing tigers lions and bears who havent been fed wearing only their jocks and no weapons reckon we could sell out 10 days in a row. Id like to attend vradkars mauling and then that little weed harris with his squeaky voice i can just see him running for his life....... also enda does deserve a day too for giving status to a certain lot who terroize the elderly and animals. Yes i d pay double for that one !! A few journalists also deserve the treatment that would be another weeks of sales and can you imagine the t shirts. One can only dream !!

KevRossi

Ireland winning the World Cup. Homecoming in Dublin only, you can line the road from the airport to College Green. Free public transport, free buses up from the country laid on by Government.

It would get around a million I think. Possibly more, especially if were in recession.

FWIW the Eucharistic Congress mass in Phoenix Park and O'Connell Bridge in 1932 probably matched (and possibly exceeded) the Pope in Phoenix Park in 1979.

I don't believe we'll beat either.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118340863#Comment_118340863

We really were backward as f**, my house was relatively liberal and my dad was an expelled prod and they still dragged me to Maynooth at 5am , it was as good as mandatory to attend

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341503#Comment_118341503

It’s very simple, the more complex you make your music the less people will go , and sir Garth is as simple as it gets therefore max gate receipts

Montage of Feck

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Must have been in a bad mood when I posted that, maybe the Xmas spirit is getting to me but I'm sorry Garth for such a mean comment.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118341262#Comment_118341262

I don't think the priests were the only people asked to count these figures.