Complex sentence: Upon the death of John Paul II in 2005, Irish bookmakers included Dougal in the running for the next pope (as a joke with odds of 1,000 to 1)-better odds than many real-life cardinals and archbishops.
Split into simpler sentences: Upon the death of John Paul II in 2005, Irish bookmakers included Dougal in the running for the next pope (albeit as a joke with odds of 1,000 to 1). This was actually better odds than many real-life cardinals and archbishops.