This morning/afternoon.
Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
Papal merchandise on day 2 of the World Meeting of Families ahead of a visit to Ireland by Pope Francis at the weekend.
They’re turning my father’s house into a market of KITSCH.
Finally.
Last night: Early Mass
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WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUC?
I KNOW, RIGHT? I JUST ATE LUNCH AND ALL. WHAT A DISGUSTING SIGHT.
What a waste of a perfectly nice girl in pic 4. Shame.
You don’t know what she’s hiding under that wimple.
a sweepstake?
Crucifix nipple rings? I so hope it’s crucifix nipple rings!
The head on the last guy is very P.T Barnum-esque
“35 snots!! 35!!”!”
Is that a young Nun?
I thought Nuns were all over 70.
She looks a bit intense, in fairness. Bit of ‘Possession’ going on.
Oh my. I can understand a lanyard or a candle as a souvenir of the event for the devoted – but dolls and sweet containers? This sh£t would have been ordered from a Chinese factory months ago – who actually commissioned a ‘pope doll’?
No questioning of whether the workers who had to make all this tat were paid a fair wage either, I suppose?
Just to confirm, would you raise said issue at Funderland, the Ploughing etc or is your ire just focused on the Catholic Church?
whataboutery bingo!
Are Funderland and the Ploughing holding a conference that includes bullplopping about social justice and education? https://www.worldmeeting2018.ie/en/Programme/Themes-and-Topics/The-role-of-education-in-raising-families-out-of-p
Hard to get an education when you’ve a 14 hour shift making pope dolls that cost more than you’ll earn in a week.
Is it a blow up doll?
imagine waking up to that, not that I’d prank anyone like that
Haha, that’d scare the bejezzus out of you…
I’m not saying janet will do it or anything but she definitely will
that pump is for my bike I swear
That’s not what you told me.
Absolutely harrowing
New Willy Wonka’s a bit naff.
Come with me
And you’ll be
In a world of transubstantiation.
And for a fee
You will see, and touch and feel
A godly like incarnation..
Oh my. I was going to award Nigel an Internet for his post… but then there would be none for you.
Are yiz happy to go halfs on an Internet?
Yep.
I cackled too.
Thanks guys.
I cackled. nice one
This whole memorabilia craze would not be out of place on a comedy sketch show.
Jokes aside I am all for people being able to buy or practice any faith that they wish so long as they are not hurting anybody. Criticisms of the religious institution and hierarchy are fair enough but when a person starts ridiculing another’s belief in a higher power etc no reason other than moral grandstanding, they just appear bitter.
That doll looks hilarious and I am not talking about the one that looks like the Pope.
No one does poo plastic tat like the Catholics do poo plastic tat!
For 35 snots you can have a pope doll that promises much humility and sharing of sorrow, but ultimately does nothing.
First pic of folks walking beside the bus: what a miserable looking lot.
Ahh lads. It’s all so Father Ted.
I understand that @glinner and Matthews drew on the peculiarities of the Catholic Church for their scripts for the show back then. Now it seems to have flipped in that the Church is inspired solely by the Father Ted episodes. As if knowing that the fictional material would run out and they needed to pick up the story.
life imitating art
c’mere have they any sellotape dispensers atall?
Not a looker among them! Pffft!
Yez want to get yourselves down to Knock to see what tatty merch is all about.
Oh for sure. There are rival tat shops who have silent agreements with one another to keep up healthy competition.
I was in Seville during the annual procession week before and outside the church with the local Mary statue it was THICK with stalls selling chintz. Crazy shiz. I got a neon light-up framed Mary, wish I still had it.
In the tat shops of northern Spain there are souvenir black berets with the Basque flag on them. Stylish seperatists.
I have a very attractive plug in framed blue Buddha with swirling lights, it’s the business
I took down an old shed a few weeks ago, with an eight ton digger. Took a huge scoop of debris out and there, left on top of of the pile was a buddha statue, unharmed. He’s now sat in the ma’s rockery.
it’s a sign
It’s a statue, he said so……
I am sooooo funny
I wish I moved there years ago and opened a shop called Knock Knick Knacks
Is there VAT on church merch and if so what % ? I hope they do their returns properly.
“Is there VAT on church merch and if so what % ? I hope they do their returns properly.”
Well there’s certainly VAT-I-can
Think I cracked this before…sorry:
Is Legal Coffee drinker still about? Is there nothing in out constitution that has implications to the State paying for some of the Popes visit? We don’t have that exact separation of Church and State they have in the US. We have the 5th amendment passed in 1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland and the constitution states that
“The State guarantees not to endow any religion.” We’re shelling out 10+ million to facilitate the visit of a religious leader. is that not endowment of a religion?
Bort, passed that on to LCD. Thanks
He probably gets around it by also being technically the head of state, as the Vatican is a country.
The tins of sweets :D
+ 1
Humbug?
Better not be Jelly Babies…
No, they’re hard boiled sweets.
Apparently there’s beard balm on sale too for wannabe Padre Pios.
Your father’s house? Who owns The RDS? Bruce Springsteen is it really you?
The only religion in the RDS is Leinster rugby!