Ireland: Pope’s visit to Dublin to cost €20 million, cautions Archbishop of Dublin

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It is unlikely that Pope Francis would do much outside of the scheduled events for the world meeting of families, which includes a concert in Croke Park, and a mass in the Phoenix Park.

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By Vivienne Clarke | December 18, 2018

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin said €5m has already been raised through church collections for the visit

The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, has said that next year’s visit from Pope Francis to Ireland will cost around €20 million.

The pontiff is scheduled to come to Ireland for the world meeting of families in August 2018 and it will the first visit from a pope since John Paul II drew one million people to the Phoenix Park in 1979.

Speaking on RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke, Archbishop Martin said that nothing about Frances’ itinerary had been finalised as of yet, but he had a few ideas over what the pope would be doing.
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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. [more ...]



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