Everybody surely knows by now that Jose Maria Bergoglio is coming to Dublin the weekend to repeat the "Yung people of Irelann I luff yuu" schtick of 1979.
The rcc gave out 500,000 tickets for the mass on Sunday in order to boost numbers for the mass.
But from anecdotes I'm both getting and hearing this is not working. First a number of people (not just atheists) booked tickets to not go (one lad got 650), second with the logistical nightmare (bus park is 6.5km from the Park) more people are falling out. And finally from speaking with a work colleague who's organising her parish's trip there are multiple copies of tickets going to each participant. The parish have c25 going, they got 75 tickets and most of those going also booked their own tickets. So if this is replicated across the country the crowd will be very sparse, barely getting out of five figures.
The rcc gave out 500,000 tickets for the mass on Sunday in order to boost numbers for the mass.
But from anecdotes I'm both getting and hearing this is not working. First a number of people (not just atheists) booked tickets to not go (one lad got 650), second with the logistical nightmare (bus park is 6.5km from the Park) more people are falling out. And finally from speaking with a work colleague who's organising her parish's trip there are multiple copies of tickets going to each participant. The parish have c25 going, they got 75 tickets and most of those going also booked their own tickets. So if this is replicated across the country the crowd will be very sparse, barely getting out of five figures.
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