Hitman3000 wrote: » Freddie didn't attack children, your buddies in black and dresses on the other hand liked the vulnerable. What would Jesus say. Wasn't he against hurting kids?
Beechwoodspark wrote: Having read a number of books on him, fcuk knows what Freddie was up to!!
Sleeper12 wrote: » People need to stop putting RC on the census when they are not. More than 50 percent of the country definitely aren't Catholic. Christian maybe but not Catholic
FrancieBrady wrote: Oh come on. The city was prepped to be swamped and it was far far from it. Somebody needs to revise the '78% of us are practising Catholics' figure. It's a joke at this stage.
Hitman3000 wrote: » He wasn't a kiddy fiddler though unlike several members of the clergy.
Strazdas wrote: There was a lot more than a 'few thousand people'.
Strazdas wrote: » There was a lot more than a 'few thousand people'. Crowds were easily four or five deep on O'Connell Street (which is a third of a mile long), on Westmoreland Street, College Green, Dame Street and Lord Edward Street. About 4-5000 people turned out to welcome the Irish hockey team home recently. That crowd was tiny compared to today (I saw both events first hand).
Beechwoodspark wrote: Freddie was good at pulling something alright haha
Sleeper12 wrote: » We have paddy's day every year. Fourty years between Pope visits. I expected a bigger turn out. They locked down the city centre on a Saturday for a few thousand people. The whole Pope mobile through the city was a bad idea imo
Edgware wrote: » Freddie Mercury was always a great crowd puller
The high horse brigade wrote: » You'd see more at the marathon, the Queen had a bigger crowd
Deleted User wrote: I can't wait for Liveline on Monday with people moaning they couldn't get parked, couldn't see the pope from 2km back, no one would stop to jump start my mobility scooter. We had to walk for 2 hours etc etc
Deleted User wrote: There most certainly wasn't a St. Patricks day size crowd on the streets.
Strazdas wrote: Nobody ever claimed there would be. That's our national day, a public holiday and with a huge parade featuring thousands of performers and musicians winding through the city lasting two hours or more
Spanish Eyes wrote: » I wonder how many will trudge through the heavy rain tomorrow for many kms. And then sit there on their three legged stools in the rain to see IL Papa up there at the altar protected from the elements. Just wondered if they might get a plenary indulgence for their rainy sins.
Sleeper12 wrote: » They were 2 or 3 deep around Dame Street & christ Church but for the vast majority of the journey it was one deep with plenty of gaps in the crowd. Some sections actually had more Gardai and stewards than members of the public. It reminded me of Haugheys state funeral Definitely not a big turnout
Strazdas wrote: » Nobody ever claimed there would be. That's our national day, a public holiday and with a huge parade featuring thousands of performers and musicians winding through the city lasting two hours or more
Deleted User wrote: » There most certainly wasn't a St. Patricks day size crowd on the streets.
TCM wrote: Huge crowds lining the streets today. Wonderful to see.
Rivka Flat Handgun wrote: » The only public allowed near her was in cork. Dublins streets were cordened off.
statesaver wrote: » No she did not