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HERE’S HIS SCHEDULE at a glance:
The Pope will attend Knock Shrine tomorrow morning and will arrive for mass at Dublin’s Phoenix Park at 2.30pm tomorrow afternoon.
And here’s the detail:
10.30am Pope Francis will arrive at Dublin Airport, to be greeted by members of the clergy and representatives of Government before leaving by car to head to the Áras.
11.15am Pope to be greeted at Áras an Uachtaráin by President Michael
D Higgins and his wife Sabina. After signing the visitors’ book, Pope Francis and President Higgins will have a private meeting, after which they will go to the garden where the pope will plant a tree.
12:10am Meeting with the Taoiseach, diplomats and others at a Dublin Castle reception. Leo Varadkar will meet with the pontiff for about 15 minutes. Speaking this week he said that his first words to the pope would be words of welcome but that he also wanted to talk about an array of issues ranging from human rights to child abuse.
The pope will make his first public speech of the visit at this event.
3.30pm Visit to St Mary’s Pro Cathedral (Marlborough Street, close to O’Connell Street). Pope Francis will meet with recently-married couples, and couples preparing for marriage.
4.15pm The pope will parade through Dublin city centre on his Popemobile. Gardaí expect up to 100,000 people to turn out, with Assistant Commissioner Pat Leahy saying this week attendees will get “within two or three metres” of the pontiff.
The route includes O’Connell Street, Westmoreland Street and Dame Street.
Capuchin Day Centre Pope Francis is scheduled to meet people from the homeless community at the Capuchin Day Centre in Smithfield in the late afternoon.
Saturday evening – Croke Park The pope is due to address the faithful in Croke Park as part of the Festival of Families, the main concert event of the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families, which has been taking place at the RDS in recent days following its opening on Tuesday night.
Ticket-holders will start arriving at 4pm and the pope is due to join the audience of some 82,500 in the stadium later where he will hear five testimonies by families from Ireland, Canada, Iraq, and Africa.
Musical headliners include Andrea Bocelli, Daniel O’Donnell, the Riverdance troupe and Nathan Carter.
9.20am Pope Francis will arrive at Ireland West (Knock) Airport in Mayo, to be greeted by a delegation of clergy and other local representatives. 100 local schoolchildren will also welcome the pope to Mayo.
9.45am The pope to arrive at Knock Shrine, the site where 15 villagers who gathered at the gable end of the parish church on 21 August 1879 said that they had witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary and other holy figures.
Pope Francis will travel through the crowd of an expected 45,000 people in the Popemobile, before paying a private visit to the Apparition Chapel, delivering a short address and leading the Angelus Prayer. There will be an open-air Mass at Knock after the pope departs, led by parish priest Fr Richard Gibbons.
2.30pm The pope arrives for the Phoenix Park Mass. First attendees are expected at the site early in the morning, and there will be recorded and live entertainment around the staging area from 8am. Here’s the plan for the Mass:
Entertainment will continue in the Phoenix Park after the Mass, organisers say. Some 500,000 people are expected to attend.
6.30pm Farewell ceremony at Dublin Airport, attended by Church and State representatives.
The pope is expected to meet survivors of clerical abuse at some stage during his two-day visit. Details of that meeting are not being announced until after it has taken place, the Vatican has said.
Good luck to her. Hopefully some of the other finalists get a chance to launch their ideas as well
It must be awkward carrying that big phone.
People tend to use the same GP because patient history is one of the most important diagnostic elements. Will this be a problem for her model?
It maybe I’ve just been watching too much House…
Ignoreland…..perhaps the patients history could be put into a database and be accessed by the patient using a P.I.N?
For a country the size of Ireland, it should be possible to network the whole system. If I have an injury in donegal then it should be possible for them to access my records even though I’m based in the Midlands.
Email should be a given instead of slow mail when gp’s are writing a referral. Plus text message reminders for out patient appointments.
It’s more complicated than you would imagine to have digital health records.
Way to go girl, good on you great idea
Well done to her. I hope she focuses on Ireland though, not just Dublin.
Best idea I’ve heard of since Google! Go girl!
Who gives out these awards? No website, no App, only an idea. This idea will die in the crib. Taxi drivers in UK are trying to make Uber and Halo illegal. Trying to do the same thing in the medical industry (a hugely regulated industry with powerful unions) is stupid. This lady will be eaten for breakfast. Might work in medical areas that are not regulated, like Chinese medicine. Saying “you go girl” without thinking critically about the idea is really patronising to her.
Don’t get me wrong, I wish we lived in a world where this app would be successful. I am no lover of unions and government regulations, but a business has to work in the real world
i think the idea of the compeition is to win funds to develop,test, launch so those end user products will come. never put the cart before the horse. having an app and a website before having a solid idea with promise never really works, your app and website just sits there doing nothing. i’m sure she has a rough visual prototype, presentation etc of how it works to pitch with.
having said that, i do see problems with the idea itself. GPs as we all know are expensive, “more business for GPs” – cry me a river, canceled appointments is of no loss to GPs, patients reschedule and in many cases theres a cancel fee. Would it mean triple travel expenses for call out fees? A travel expense in GPs terms could be a taxi fare x 3. There are approx 2million medical and GP-visit cards in use here as well. How does it cater for them, and with regarding travel fees. I don’t think the HSE will pay for it no more than old age free travel covers taxi fares. So, back to private customers. If they can afford it then great then thats her target market. I think the fees involved, how many ‘private users’ will sign up for it and of course access to medical records, data security and release of said data would ideas for the app to overcome.
@Alan From an acorn can grow a mighty oak. Ideas are everything.
@patrick, ideas and nothing, implementation is everything. Google didn’t come up with the idea of a search engine, Microsoft didn’t come up with the idea of a computer operating system. Implementation is everything
We need the same for Doctors. I couldn’t even find a reliable site by googling. Doctor app please together with consultancy fee. Thank you.
Good luck to her. I hope that this proposed alternative delivery of healthcare is not a platform for inexperienced professionals (who can’t work in the health system due to recruitment embargo of past few years) to get work. My issue with this is that for some patients who are vulnerable – they may be paying for a service that isn’t top quality. Finally, I look forward to the other 23 applicants proposals to be reported by the journal.
This young lady and her ingenious click clinic app has possibly doubled or trebled the market for the medical professionals offering those services.
Disruptive technology at its most effective!
Well done to her!
Good on ye lass hope it gets taken on.
Is disruptive the new “in-word”?
Have seen this of Twitter and as a fellow physio I see flaws in the business model!! Already websites like what clinic and generally find its more cost effective to invest in google Seo on our own website! But u know what folks fair play to her she is pushing an idea she has into reality!! How many of us have had ideas and never done anything about them!!! My wee bit of advice if the young lady does read this is under promise and over deliver!!
I always worry when I see words like ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘health’ used in the same sentence. That immediately puts me off. But good luck to her and the others too with their inventions.
Unfortunately it’s a zero sum game. There will always be people waiting as long as the health service is understaffed. In fact, it seems unfair that the young tech-savvy people with the app are going to get treatment faster than, and possibly at the expense of, the older people
Well done and best of luck with the idea!
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