@IrishTimes: 70,000 tickets for Garth Brooks concerts bought overseas http://t.co/k7tKBXJBJg
What a boost to the economy 
To Gareth 
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Who?
Gareth, ask any culchie, they bought tickets to see him this year.
A few people are going to be mugged off by this… 
The GAA has confirmed that two of the five planned Garth Brooks concerts at Croke Park have been cancelled after Dublin City Council did not grant permission for them to go ahead.
Concerts will go ahead on 25, 26, and 27 July.
400,000 tickets have already been sold for the five sold-out shows.
Earlier Fine Gael Councillor Ray McAdam said Dublin City Manager Owen Keegan confirmed to him this morning that just three of the concerts have been approved by the council.
There is no right of appeal against the council’s decision except by going to the courts.
Reports that promoters were seeking an alternative venue such as the Aviva Stadium have also been dismissed as there is not enough time for a licence application.
Last week a mediation process aimed at resolving a dispute over the concerts recommended that in future Croke Park should not host concerts on four or five consecutive nights.
Labour Relations Commission Chief Executive Kieran Mulvey’s report also recommended a Garth Brooks legacy fund of €500,000 for the local community.
GAA Director General Páraic Duffy said the GAA would pay the money recommended under the fund.
Mr Mulvey’s report follows meetings with residents, the GAA and concert promoters.
Croke Park planned to hold a total of eight concerts this year, including the five consecutive nights by Garth Brooks.
Mr Mulvey’s report found the intensification of shows has had a negative impact on the quality of life of residents and that a lack of trust remains a persistent issue between the parties.
While residents want no concerts for the next two years, Croke Park has offered to adhere to three concerts per year. Mr Mulvey said the result is a stalemate.
The report proposed nine concerts between 2017 and 2019, with an exception for a special event during centenary celebrations in 2016.
Earlier this year residents threatened legal action over the number of planned concerts.
Mugged off…good and proper.
Two down, three to go.
All five gigs may be yanked now 
They won’t be pulled, sure they are worth hundreds and hundreds of millions to the Irish economy
please let this happen
700 thousand muldoons by their total spend (2 slices of bread by 2 slices of ham by 1 tea bag and a drip of milk ) = 250,000 euros
Plus the cost of diesel to drive their Toyota Carina E’s to Dublin
The cost of the clean up- as they shit, piss and snot all over the place and leave their straw hats and cider bottles in front gardens - 5m euros.
Some lad representing the residents was on Newstalk there saying that cancelling two of the concerts may not be enough to appease his clients.
When I posted that all five were under threat of being pulled, that’s kinda what I meant…
Apologies mate, didn’t see your post above.
Would be gas if all five were pulled.
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We migth get him down to Limerick then mate and we can lord it in the front row.
Tinfoil producers & retailers are literally on a knife edge awaiting confirmation of this.
Bring it to the Gaelic Grounds - a splendid idea.
From the Indo. A pure mess.
THERE is strong speculation today that all five of the Garth Brooks concerts may be cancelled.
Independent.ie has learned from separate sources in Croke Park and in the music industry that the country superstar may pull out of all his Irish gigs, after Dublin City Council only gave a licence for three of the five concerts.
This ruling is in breach of the contract that Brooks signed with Aiken Promotions for five concerts.
The other possibility of three concerts taking place in Croke Park with the remainder being transferred to the Aviva Stadium has been described as “completely unfeasible” and “unworkable” by another source.
“These concerts are due to take place at the end of the month, and logistically, structurally and with all the ticketing transfers that would have to go with that there simply wouldn’t be enough time.”
The GAA will release an official statement in the next hour on the matter, but the body and the promoters let by Peter Aiken are both said to be devastated by the news, not to mention the 400,000 fans who were due to attend the five nights.
There has been much movement behind the scenes throughout the day.
Independent.ie understands the Aviva has been put forward as an alternative venue for Brooks’ two axed concerts - subject to approval from Dublin City Council.
The move came as it emerged that Dublin City Council granted permission for just three Garth Brooks concerts at Croke Park, despite the fact that country superstar has sold out five concerts at GAA Headquarters, with 400,000 tickets sold in record time.
It’s understood that Croke Park will retain concerts on Friday, July 25th, Saturday, July 26th, and Sunday, July 27th.
It’s believed that the concerts on Monday, July 28th, and Tuesday, July 29th, are in jeopardy.
A source has told independent.ie that the situation is no longer in “the hands of the GAA”.
Promoters Aiken, who are in charge of Brooks’ Irish concerts, have met with rival promoters MCD in the last 24 hours.
MCD own the performing rights at the Aviva stadium at Landsowne Road, which has a capacity of 50,000 as opposed to Croke Park’s 80,000.
It’s understood that the Aviva will now be put forward as a possible venue for the remaining two Brooks concerts and they will be run over three nights.
If this is agreeable with all parties, MCD and Aiken will have to apply once again for a licence to Dublin City Council which will be subject for approval
The decision to grant permission for just three of Brooks’ five sold out concerts has come as a major shock for fans.
However, problems regarding the concert have been flagged for some time.
Irate local residents had launched a major campaign because a written agreement in 2009 outlined that no more than three concerts were to be held at the stadium each year.
Dublin City Council’s CEO Owen Keegan spent yesterday holding high-level talks with staff in the planning office.
Fine Gael Cllr Ray McAdam said today: “I think there will be a significant amount of fallout from this."
But he said the decision is “a reflection” of the “the recommendations in a recent mediation report”.
He said five concerts was “too much in the first place”.
A spokesperson for Aiken Promotions has said they are “very disappointed that Dublin City Council did not grant a licence for the five Garth Brooks concerts at Croke Park”.
They have said that they will issue a further statement in due course.
Dublin City Council said today a total of 373 submissions were received from members of the public on the concert licence application.
It said it would be concerned with the precedent that would be created if five consecutive concerts in a row of this scale were licenced.
Dublin City Council said the reasons for the cancellations were the “the scale, magnitude and number of the concerts” and the “cumulative effect on residents and some businesses”.
“Five shows in a row following on from the three concerts already held there this year is considered an over intensification of use of the stadium for the holding of special events/concerts.”
“The cumulative effect on residents and on some businesses in the Croke Park and surrounding neighbourhoods, of licencing five shows in a row, three of them on weekdays, would lead to an unacceptable level of disruption to their lives/livelihoods over an unprecedented and prolonged period caused by, concert related noise, access restrictions, traffic disruption, illegal parking and potential antisocial behaviour.”
I think the GAA need to get Frank Murphy on the case.
That indo story is bullshit. Surely they had the contract in place before the number of gigs was confirmed. Just a ploy to get more page views