Image of Francis with Gaelic football goes viral

An image of Pope Francis being presented with an O’Neill’s Gaelic football has gone viral with GAA supporters all over the world posting the picture on social media sites.

Lazio GAA, who are members of a society of over 50 sporting clubs representing the name of ‘Lazio’, were invited to an audience with the Pope recently where the photo was taken.

Club secretary Cormac McLaughlin said he was “astounded” by people’s reaction to the photo on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

“My phone died very quickly, because it was just red hot with notifications. People from Australia and America were retweeting it, the various websites were covering it, we were getting texts from back home,” he said.