Pope will vist Ireland in 2018(mod warning in Op)

The flying mouse · 28-11-2016 12:44PM #1

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said Pope Francis has confirmed he will travel to Ireland in August 2018.

It comes after Mr Kenny held a 23-minute meeting with the pope in the Vatican.

The meeting was requested following the invitation to the pope by the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference to visit Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in two years' time.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2016/1128/834873-pope-kenny-church-vatican/

Last time a pope visited here was 1979 September, I remember it well as worked on the popes cross in the pheno, my claim to fame.

Well will ya welcome his holiness or not AH ?

Mod- Knock it on the head with the Catholic bashing please. No more references to them being a pedo cult etc

MadYaker · 28-11-2016 12:46PM

Has he come to apologise?

dan1895 · 28-11-2016 12:46PM

I wonder if anyone will suggest to let all the prisoners out to see him this time.

Mr. Incognito · 28-11-2016 12:47PM

Well for him.

I not religious but it will bring a LOT of tourism and attention on Ireland.

I'm all for that.

Winterlong · 28-11-2016 12:48PM

2.5 million turned out to see JP2 in 1979.
Doubt there will be so many this time round.

RobertKK · 28-11-2016 12:48PM

It will be a special time as it is for every country the Pope visits, despite what distractors/opponents say.

Zubeneschamali · 28-11-2016 12:48PM

Marty Whelan on Lyric heard this last week from some opera singer who was already booked to sing for the pope's visit in 2018.

Bubbaclaus · 28-11-2016 12:49PM

Is he coming to issue an official apology to the people of Ireland and bringing a big novelty cheque with him for the compensation owed by the Church?

JupiterKid · 28-11-2016 12:50PM

The Pope is welcome to come here. It's been over a generation since the last Papal visit and Ireland has changed almost beyond all recognition since 1979.

Of course the church has a much more diminished position in Ireland but 37 years ago it was still far too powerful. I doubt there will be half the population in the Phoenix Park but Francis will still attract pretty sizable numbers.

I was 4 when my family were at the Park to see JPII and I can vaguely remember it!

me_irl · 28-11-2016 12:50PM

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Marty Whelan on Lyric heard this last week from some opera singer who was already booked to sing for the pope's visit in 2018.

Marty Whelan: "I heard from this fat fella down the pub."

seamus · 28-11-2016 12:51PM

I'm sure plenty of people will go along to "see" even if they haven't seen the inside of a church in ten years.

The numbers will be well down though on the last time. Certainly won't be going myself, no more than I'd go to see Netanyahu or the Ayatollah.

If he's doing a Phoenix park jobbie, that would be a good weekend to book a hotel down the country. Be lovely and quiet.

Shenshen · 28-11-2016 12:52PM

Ryanair will welcome that - they can sell tickets to people wanting to come to Ireland to see the pope, and tickets to those who want to escape the circus and will want to be abroad for a few days while he's here.

Zubeneschamali · 28-11-2016 12:52PM

me_irl wrote: »

Marty Whelan: "I heard from this fat fella down the pub."

He was not wrong.

SEPT 23 1989 · 28-11-2016 12:53PM

1979 was Ireland's Woodstock

Zubeneschamali · 28-11-2016 12:55PM

seamus wrote: »

I'm sure plenty of people will go along to "see" even if they haven't seen the inside of a church in ten years.

Loads of us went to see him in 79 who weren't exactly holy joes.

How often do you see an actual crowd of a million people in a field?

The flying mouse · 28-11-2016 12:57PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

1979 was Ireland's Woodstock

Never thought of it like that, Even though I worked on the Cross I never went to see him, we all went to the fields to drink cider n wine

:pac:

Don't know if I would go n see him now, might if I was there & it wasn't to packed .bring the grandkids...

28-11-2016 12:58PM

MadYaker wrote: »

Has he come to apologise?

What did he do?

He can come or not, doesn't bother me either ways.
Oh apart from I'm bound to make a few Bob in overtime!

RobertKK · 28-11-2016 12:58PM

Given in the past a plot to assassinate the Pope in the Philippines was uncovered and averted, and ISIS saying they also want to kill the Pope, the Phoenix Park would hardly be a secure area for both the Pope and the people who attend.

osarusan · 28-11-2016 12:58PM

Panti Bliss to MC.

That'll learn him.

28-11-2016 12:59PM

RobertKK wrote: »

Given in the past a plot to assassinate the Pope in the Philippines was uncovered and averted, and ISIS saying they also want to kill the Pope, the Phoenix Park would hardly be a secure area for both the Pope and the people who attend.

Hence the overtime!

Armchair Andy · 28-11-2016 01:00PM

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Marty Whelan on Lyric heard this last week from some opera singer who was already booked to sing for the pope's visit in 2018.

Why should our esteemed Mayo Monkey pass up on a stellar PR opportunity?
Watch him slide back into the fold when the **** hits the fan again.

seamus · 28-11-2016 01:01PM

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Loads of us went to see him in 79 who weren't exactly holy joes.

How often do you see an actual crowd of a million people in a field?

I've had enough experience of 100,000 people standing around in fields and on streets to know that it's far more incredible to see it from above. In an aerial photo. From the comfort of my couch.

Five minutes of "wow look at all these people" and five hours of pushing and shoving and walking more slowly than anyone was ever meant to walk and struggling to get in and out. No, thanks

me_irl · 28-11-2016 01:03PM

seamus wrote: »

I've had enough experience of 100,000 people standing around in fields and on streets to know that it's far more incredible to see it from above. From the comfort of my snipers nest.

...I think that's what you meant.

Richard Hillman · 28-11-2016 01:07PM

Pope Francis seems like a very pleasant man.

I hope all the Castro-Loving leftist's are not allowed to highjack the experience for everyone else.

Oodoov · 28-11-2016 01:08PM

Will gay people be welcomed at any events? What about the single mothers? Will he say sorry to the women who had children born outside wedlock only for the child to be taken from them and given to good catholic couples who couldnt conceive themselves? I've a huge problem with the leader of an organisation that facilitated and hid the sexual abuse of thousands of children coming here.

Will i be protesting this mans visit, you had better believe it and im sure i will be one of thousands with like minded views. The church is no longer feared in Ireland and it's about time they knew it.

RobertKK · 28-11-2016 01:10PM

I am seeing the Pope next April in St Peters square. I received my letter from the Vatican that my ticket is reserved for Easter Sunday.

My earliest memory is when I was 3 and the Pope visited Ireland. My father was busy making hay, remember my mother painting the ceiling in the kitchen and the general excitement of the Pope's visit.

It will be a great time for the country in 2018. It should also be noted that Jorge Mario Bergoglio as a Jesuit lived in Dublin for a number of months at the Jesuits residence. So it should be special for him to now to return to Dublin as the Pope. He would know the city fairly well, despite a lot of changes in the meantime.

28-11-2016 01:11PM

Oodoov wrote: »

Will i be protesting this mans visit, you had better believe it and im sure i will be one of thousands with like minded views. The church is no longer feared in Ireland and it's about time they knew it.

Them protest-ants, up to no good as usual.

Zubeneschamali · 28-11-2016 01:13PM

Oodoov wrote: »

I've a huge problem with the leader of an organisation that facilitated and hid the sexual abuse of thousands of children coming here

I did not know that Prince William is president of the Football Association in England.

28-11-2016 01:13PM

RobertKK wrote: »

I am seeing the Pope next April in St Peters square. I received my letter from the Vatican that my ticket is reserved for Easter Sunday.

My earliest memory is when I was 3 and the Pope visited Ireland. My father was busy making hay, remember my mother painting the ceiling in the kitchen and the general excitement of the Pope's visit.

It will be a great time for the country in 2018. It should also be noted that Jorge Mario Bergoglio as a Jesuit lived in Dublin for a number of months at the Jesuits residence.So it should be special for him to now to return to Dublin as the Pope. He would know the city fairly well, despite a lot of changes in the meantime.

Well obviously. Everyone knows that.

Jimmy Bottlehead · 28-11-2016 01:14PM

Oodoov wrote: »

Will gay people be welcomed at any events? What about the single mothers? Will he say sorry to the women who had children born outside wedlock only for the child to be taken from them and given to good catholic couples who couldnt conceive themselves? I've a huge problem with the leader of an organisation that facilitated and hid the sexual abuse of thousands of children coming here.

Will i be protesting this mans visit, you had better believe it and im sure i will be one of thousands with like minded views. The church is no longer feared in Ireland and it's about time they knew it.

Considering that the church protested so hard against the gay marriage referendum, and they'll undoubtedly do the same with the 8th Amendment, as well as the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse in the past, I think that their representative should be met with a frosty reception from a slowly but surely increasingly progressive Ireland.

gramar · 28-11-2016 01:18PM

The biggest outdoor concert ever held in Ireland was on in the Phoenix park on Saturday 29th of September 1979. Just so happened the Pope was there the same day.

Pope will vist Ireland in 2018(mod warning in Op)

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