A memory of John Paul II

In my rummage through that aforementioned box of photographs, your Editor also found a picture I took of Pope John Paul II on his visit to Ireland in 1979.

I was covering the visit for a number of organisations, including the Catholic Communications Centre, and on the evening of his first day in Dublin, after the event in the Phoenix Park and a subsequent meeting with the Irish bishops, he had a special event for journalists in a northside Dublin school.

His address to us is here though you need Italian to read it.

On an evening when the Pope's health is again in fairly serious question, the picture provokes reflection.

— Brian Byrne.

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