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JUST UNDER HALF of people said that they’d like to attend a mass by Pope Francis, if one takes place when he visits Ireland next year.
In a survey of 1,000 Irish adults by Ámarach Research for RTÉ’s Claire Byrne Live, 47% of people said they would like to attend a mass given by the pope.
While 12% said they didn’t know either way, 41% of people said they wouldn’t like to.
Although it has been confirmed that Pope Francis will be coming to Dublin for the World Meeting of Families in August 2018, little about his itinerary has been made publicly available yet.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke earlier this week, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said that it was likely that the pope would hold a mass in the Phoenix Park, just like Pope John Paul II did in 1979.
The pope’s advancing age – he’s now 81 – would mean his itinerary would not be as packed as John Paul II’s was in 1979.
“We had over one million in the Phoenix Park [for Pope John Paul II],” Martin said. “But we’re not looking at numbers, we’re looking at the quality of events.
He’d like to go to a prison. Everywhere he goes, he goes to a prison. He’d like to see and meet people who are experiencing poverty, so I imagine something for the homeless. I’d like him to meet with the travellers too. Show solidarity.
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It’s no wonder they are able to open new branches as they have front of bank staff down to 2 at a time if your lucky
Rural Ireland feels no benefit once again. Social isolation is agenda at this stage
Look if people decide to live in isolated rural communities with tiny populations then they will have live with the fact that they are never going to have the services that are provided in large urban centres.
One off houses are an abomination.
The people that put bread and meat on your table would like to have neighbours too.
Then go live in a village!
It is not sustainable to have houses dotted all over the countryside.
The only house that should be built on a family farm is for the person (family) working that farm!
You should not be permitted to build on the farm just because you are the child of a farmer unless you are actively working on the farm and will inherit it in the future. The farm should also be viable there probably should be some size restriction to build on the farm. It’s unlikely that a 1 hectare farm would be viable but there maybe some crops or produce that would make a farm of that size profitable. Each case should be examined on its merits.
News just in, all people outside of Dublin are not farmers
Prionsaois take a chill pill. That’s a different argument!
The banks should be open from 9 to 6 and on Saturdays like any other normal business.
They don’t need new branches just longer opening hours
I didn’t start it and I agree probably Sunday opening as well.
Yeah he didn’t start it…na na na. *stick tongue out*
excellent. …more branches where “computer says no” to ordinary people
Dublin for Sam ,Mayo for Salad
more ATMs with lodging facilities please
They should bring in a new rule that if you’re doing multiple transactions you have to goto a teller.. Nothing bloody worse then been stuck behind somebody lodging five or six cheques into a lodgement machine..
Dublin and Cork.What a surprise.Can’t think outside the box
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