Tickets for the Pope’s visit to Ireland are now completely sold out

Shame.

If you were planning on snapping up some tickets for the Pope's visit to Ireland this August, you better rethink your summer activities because all of the tickets are now sold out. 500,000 tickets to Pope Francis's Papal visit mass in the Phoenix Park have been booked since going on sale late last month. This is the first time a Pope has visited Ireland in 40 years. On August 25, the Pope will arrive in Dublin and the next day give mass at Dublin's Phoenix Park to a crowd of half a million. Earlier that Sunday morning, he will visit the Knock Shrine in Co Mayo. 45,000 tickets for this event have also sold out. The Pope will be in Ireland for a total of six days for the the World Meeting of Families 2018. During this time, he will also visit Croke Park and the RDS for the WMF pastoral congress. An anti-Pope visit group, Nope to the Pope, have been campaigning against the Pontiff's visit to Ireland for the past few weeks. One member of the group, Richard Duffy, said he booked 700 tickets to the event and planned to destroy them to boycott the visit. However, he told Joe Duffy on Liveline last week that he had changed his stance on the issue, saying that he was "depriving people of how they wished to practice their faith." Duffy said that if the event sold out, he would contact the organisers to nullify his booked tickets.