RE: Pope's visit to Ireland turning into a fiasco?
August 26, 2018 at 11:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 26, 2018 at 11:10 am by Pat Mustard.)
I had a quick look at RTÉ's coverage of Bergoglio getting off the plane at Knock, they were talking about crowds out to meet him.
The "crowd" was about three school loads of national school children (elementary school for those not knowledgeable of the Irish system) in their school uniforms (on a Sunday!) and their parents and teachers. So the crowd was a setup of people most of whom were forced into going.
PS: Here's the crowd at the Phoenix Park for the mass:
![[Image: IRISH%20Po%20618.jpg]](https://cdn-03.independent.ie/incoming/article37253554.ece/1a7a3/BINARY/IRISH%20Po%20618.jpg)
Considering that it's laid out for 500,000 people and all those going would have been there for a few hours, that looks very sparse to me. We're looking at about 100,000 people, and that's being generous.
Final Edit; Picture courtesy of this Irish Independent article. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/po...53579.html
The "crowd" was about three school loads of national school children (elementary school for those not knowledgeable of the Irish system) in their school uniforms (on a Sunday!) and their parents and teachers. So the crowd was a setup of people most of whom were forced into going.
PS: Here's the crowd at the Phoenix Park for the mass:
Considering that it's laid out for 500,000 people and all those going would have been there for a few hours, that looks very sparse to me. We're looking at about 100,000 people, and that's being generous.
Final Edit; Picture courtesy of this Irish Independent article. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/po...53579.html
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