As the country prepares for the visit of Pope Francis this weekend, The Last Word is looking back on the last Papal visit 39 years ago.

When Pope John Paul came to Ireland in 1979, it was a very different country in many ways to the one we live in today.

In the first part of our documentary series Papal Attraction, we look at what Ireland was like in 1979, socially and politically, and how it influenced the welcome the Pope received.

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