A church service using music from the U2 catalogue has taken place at the Anglican St George and St Thomas's Church in Dublin. Around 150 people attended the event, and sang songs such as 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' and 'One'. Organiser Greg Fromholz said: "We're reaching out to the youth. There's a deep Christian message in U2's music".
As previously reported, the idea of the U2charist originated in the US, a service taking place in Baltimore back in Apr 2004. The concept has since been repeated in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The aforementioned Fromholz thinks that similar services held abroad went a bit too far in the whole worshipping-U2-instead-of-God stakes, however, and says of them: "I think at times they have pushed it a bit too far, using images of the band. We're not doing that at all, we're just using the songs as a soundtrack to searching".