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Gallery: The Pope Turns Up At Croke Park

Gallery: The Pope Turns Up At Croke Park
By Gavin Cooney
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Pope Francis turned up at Croke Park last night to lead the World Festival of Families, and Sportsfile were on hand at GAA HQ to capture a few images.

Here are some of them.

The leader of an age-old institution struggling to remedy the alienation of its grassroots members meets Pope Francis

'Let us pause for a moment of reflection...'

'Can we not limit the number of handpasses or something?'

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'Are you St Peter?'

'It's better than Leicester, anyway'

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'Yeah, he tried to play here for five nights, the mad egotist'

'How do you like that, Bernard Flynn!?'

'Plan B'

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Elsewhere, Alan Kerins got a chance to address the crowd...

...while RTE gave it all The Sunday Game treatment

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