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So who's going to see the Pope?

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  • #2552
    harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭harr


    I can imagine the poor weather conditions keeping the numbers down in knock ... 45,000 tickets allocated.


  • #2553
    sonofenoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,503 ✭✭✭sonofenoch


    Knock Knock
    who's there
    Pope
    pope who...



    can't beat the old classics


  • #2554
    rafatoni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 469 ✭✭rafatoni


    10km tailback in knock. Some traffic jam that.


  • #2555
    Varta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 517 ✭✭✭Varta


    Some mad bint screaming her head off on the sound system in the park at 7/8am this morning. Very considerate of the locals... not!


  • #2556
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    Varta wrote: »
    Some mad bint screaming her head off on the sound system in the park at 7/8am this morning. Very considerate of the locals... not!

    I anticipate she is doing her job. No need to personally attack her.


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  • #2557
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    He seems to have a very large security detail. Are they armed?


  • #2558
    Sycamore Tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Sycamore Tree


    You have to hand it to the people of Mayo/Knock. I mean Knock is a pure scam really but it does great marketing. From all accounts it is highly unlikely there was any "apparition" and the chosen ones were coached in what to say afterwards when it became a big story. And today you have a situation where the relatives of the children who saw Mary/Saints own all the shops on the main street selling all the religious junk. Making a fortune.
    .


  • #2559
    harr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭harr


    SeaFields wrote: »
    He seems to have a very large security detail. Are they armed?
    He has his own small security detail and a lot of what was with him yesterday would have been plain clothes guards from various divisions.
    Not sure about the popes own security but the Irish lads would have been definitely armed.


  • #2560
    The Talking Bread
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,037 ✭✭✭✭The Talking Bread


    SeaFields wrote: »
    He seems to have a very large security detail. Are they armed?

    Holy water. If it works for exorcisms it should work for a physical attck


  • #2561
    mugsymugsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭mugsymugsy


    Sycamore Tree wrote: »
    You have to hand it to the people of Mayo/Knock. I mean Knock is a pure scam really but it does great marketing. From all accounts it is highly unlikely there was any "apparition" and the chosen ones were coached in what to say afterwards when it became a big story. And today you have a situation where the relatives of the children who saw Mary/Saints own all the shops on the main street selling all the religious junk. Making a fortune.
    .

    The grandson of one of the people that saw the apparition is on rte and as you say he does have a shop selling tat


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  • #2562
    Autochange
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Autochange


    The ban hammer has been busy on this thread.
    Nothing like a bit of religion to stir up some division and hatred between folk.


  • #2563
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Autochange wrote: »
    The ban hammer has been busy on this thread.
    Nothing like a bit of religion to stir up some division and hatred between folk.

    All seems to be stemming from those who claim to be Christian. Weird that!


  • #2564
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,690 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Varta wrote: »
    Some mad bint screaming her head off on the sound system in the park at 7/8am this morning. Very considerate of the locals... not!

    I genuinely thought my neighbours had gone off their rockers and were pumping out holy music, as oppose to the usual dance music. Collaboration between both. "Don't you know Pope it up, you've got to Pope it up".


  • #2565
    Varta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 517 ✭✭✭Varta


    I don't believe it was deliberate but it was certainly thoughtless. She sounded like she was fluffing a crowd of teenagers for a teenybop concert. Much quieter from around 10.30 Why the organisers did this to locals, who are already very put out, is beyond me.


  • #2566
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    The only person going form my whole family and extended family is my mother. She's only going cos her friend got a ticket and asked her to go with her. I hope she'll be ok with the long day and all the walking


  • #2567
    Irish Kings
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭Irish Kings


    Varta wrote: »
    Some mad bint screaming her head off on the sound system in the park at 7/8am this morning. Very considerate of the locals... not!

    was yer ma at it again ?


  • #2568
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,202 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Irish Kings wrote: »
    was yer ma at it again ?

    This is your joke of choice I see?


  • #2569
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,441 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Sycamore Tree wrote: »
    You have to hand it to the people of Mayo/Knock. I mean Knock is a pure scam really but it does great marketing. From all accounts it is highly unlikely there was any "apparition" and the chosen ones were coached in what to say afterwards when it became a big story. And today you have a situation where the relatives of the children who saw Mary/Saints own all the shops on the main street selling all the religious junk. Making a fortune.
    .

    I doubt they were coached. You are talking old people, kids, most of them probably with little to no education. One or two of them would have spilled the beans eventually and none did.

    I believe they saw something that night. Based on eye witness reports it's sounded to me like a projector of some sort was used and in 1879 rural Mayo that would have seemed other worldly.


  • #2570
    Ilovethe bonesofyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭Ilovethe bonesofyou


    How Soon Is Now wrote:
    This is your joke of choice I see?


    The old yore ma "joke" on after hours. So original and hilarious.


  • #2571
    EdgeCase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭EdgeCase


    The biggest issue I see with Knock is a religious motivation caused the development of an airport in a small town with poorly connected infrastructure and resulted in Galway Airport never developing properly, which is a huge problem for Galway City and hinterland and the prospects for the West of Ireland's serious hub

    However, the West of Ireland is full of bonkers planning decisions and I'm going OT :)


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  • #2572
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,202 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    Ilovethe bonesofyou wrote: »
    The old yore ma "joke" on after hours. So original and hilarious.

    Especially when it's used more then once in same thread!!


  • #2573
    Ilovethe bonesofyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭Ilovethe bonesofyou


    EdgeCase wrote:
    The biggest issue I see with Knock is a religious motivation caused the development of an airport in a small town with poorly connected infrastructure and resulted in Galway Airport never developing properly, which is a huge problem for Galway City and hinterland and the prospects for the West of Ireland's serious hub.


    It's very handy for people in the north west though like Sligo, leitrim, Donegal etc. Doesn't Galway at least have motorway all the way to Dublin?


  • #2574
    Ilovethe bonesofyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭Ilovethe bonesofyou


    How Soon Is Now wrote:
    Especially when it's used more then once in same thread!!


    There's still people can genuinely make you laugh out loud on boards but they're few and far between.


  • #2575
    ELM327
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,150 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    How Soon Is Now wrote: »
    Especially when it's used more then once in same thread!!
    Just like yore ma




    sorry :o


  • #2576
    Hitman3000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,596 ✭✭✭Hitman3000


    Richard Bingham wrote:
    What scandal are the media going to get your balls all twisted up over next year. You don't even know yet.


    All I got from your rant was deflection. Your church raped and abused kids. Your pope has covered up abuse yet you are happy to call others sheep for daring to question the church. Hilarious.


  • #2577
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,441 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    EdgeCase wrote: »
    The biggest issue I see with Knock is a religious motivation caused the development of an airport in a small town with poorly connected infrastructure and resulted in Galway Airport never developing properly, which is a huge problem for Galway City and hinterland and the prospects for the West of Ireland's serious hub.

    Galway airport would be struggling without Knock airport ever existing. The rail and road network from Galway city to Dublin means it's pretty pointless flying from the East. You have Shannon just over an hour south which would automatically get the transatlantic and main European routes.

    Knock airport has exceeded everyone's expectations for what a small rural airport should be. When it lost the revenue from duty free it started to charge the €10 departure fee.


  • #2578
    CB19Kevo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭CB19Kevo


    On a wet day like today its even harder for me to understand the appeal of it all.
    If it was a rock concert i could understand,But a muddy field for hours and hours to see the pope!
    Each to there own i suppose...


  • #2579
    EdgeCase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭EdgeCase


    Ilovethe bonesofyou wrote: »
    It's very handy for people in the north west though like Sligo, leitrim, Donegal etc. Doesn't Galway at least have motorway all the way to Dublin?

    It does now but it puts it at a huge disadvantage relative to Cork in particular for FDI. I've literally heard it come up at meetings when both locations were being discussed. It's still the guts of a 2:45 drive to Dublin, more if there's traffic onnthr M50 and approaching Dublin.

    An airport in Galway and a decent DC/Motorway route up the west coast linking in Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and South Donegal would have made a hell of a lot more sense as you'd have a viable regional network with a bit of scale for healthcare, universities and so on in Galway.

    But, alas, we do parish pump planning so it never happens.

    But back to the pope's visit.

    You'd wonder what will become or Knock long term. I've been hearing the numbers or people visit have dwindled over the years.

    Is there a plan for Knock in a less religiously focused Ireland?


  • #2580
    4068ac1elhodqr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


    Anyone done a headcount as of yet?
    Can't imagine 500,000 will actually show up somehow.


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  • #2581
    Ilovethe bonesofyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭Ilovethe bonesofyou


    EdgeCase wrote:
    An airport in Galway and a decent DC/Motorway route up the west coast linking in Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and South Donegal would have made a hell of a lot more sense as you'd have a viable regional network with a bit of scale for healthcare, universities and so on in Galway.


    As someone already pointed out though, you've already got Shannon down that end of the country which is advantageous for Galway. Knock is handy for this side of the country. I agree with you re the motorway for this side though.


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