TO MOST people it’s just a humble plastic bucket, but to pensioner John Joe McCarthy it’s a valued souvenir of one of the most fascinating days in his life – the day Pope John Paul II came to Limerick.
…So much so that John Joe is planning to present a simple black plastic bucket, which he has had mounted on a slab of marble, to his former school, in memory of the Pope’s visit to Ireland more than 30 years ago.“I used the bucket to carry my provisions for the day – my lunch, my camera and my binoculars,’ he says, quipping that the solid two-gallon bucket, which measures more than 12 inches in height, also served two other important functions.
“I used the bucket to sit on and I also turned it over and stood on it in order to take pictures of the Pope…”
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