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Garth Brooks Comeback Special *ALL 5 SHOWS CANCELLED* READ FIRST POST

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    #5342
    Bannerman7
    Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭Bannerman7


    Looks like prayers have not been answered, is this why he is asking Enda ? :D

    garth-brooks-prayers-377x500.jpg


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    #5343
    baaba maal
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    paddyirish23 wrote: »
    Enda is stuck between a rock and a hard place on this, He says no and everyone who has tickets, the pubs, restaurants, hotels, shops even the tourism will be affected and the 400000 ticket holders, on the other hand he lets it go ahead and is bashed by the ppl who like that he's sticking to the laws that are here and not getting involved.

    Laws that do need to be looked at now so tell me, if the law allows for this situation to occur, how can ppl say they work?

    Let the 5 go ahead then lets sort out the law, we already are being laughed at for this

    Or alternatively, we accept that the laws have led to this situation. We accept that the concerts aren't going ahead, and then we engage in a process of bringing together all the "stakeholders" nationally (not just in relation to Croker) and they, with the politicians come up with legislation that is fair, proportionate and fit for purpose. To magically "allow" the concerts to proceed undermines further the law therefore making the prospect of proper legislation less likely. In my opinion.


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    #5344
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    baaba maal wrote: »
    Or alternatively, we accept that the laws have led to this situation. We accept that the concerts aren't going ahead, and then we engage in a process of bringing together all the "stakeholders" nationally (not just in relation to Croker) and they, with the politicians come up with legislation that is fair, proportionate and fit for purpose. To magically "allow" the concerts to proceed undermines further the law therefore making the prospect of proper legislation less likely. In my opinion.

    If the law is ignored here I don't think Brooks fans are thinking through the implications of that long after the ship has sailed back to America.


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    #5345
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Oh look...he is flagging that there may be issues!

    Or he is just loading the dice in perpetration:

    Moan now that the Oireachtas is knee deep in GAA members and the then, should they find fault with how he has conducted himself during this whole fiasco, he can just say: 'Told you the Oireachtas were biased'.
    'Nasty habit that', says Peter Aiken.

    The 'meeting' was called off because there where negotiations ongoing...keep up.
    I didn't buy that line then and I don't buy it now. The meeting would have progressed negotiations if anything.


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    #5346
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    Or he is just loading the dice in perpetration:

    Moan now that the Oireachtas is knee deep in GAA members and the then, should they find fault with how he has conducted himself during this whole fiasco, he can just say: 'Told you the Oireachtas were biased'.

    'Knee deep'? Man, you do love to exaggerate.
    Do you think a committee investigating the Gardai should be chaired by The Commissioner of the Gardai?
    He is simply protecting himself, quite a natural thing to do.
    I didn't buy that line then and I don't buy it now. The meeting would have progressed negotiations if anything.

    The meeting at that point would have been pointless. The people with the ability to thrash it out where already in session.


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    #5347
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    He is simply protecting himself, quite a natural thing to do.

    The GAA has around 1 million members. You'd be hard pushed to find any committee in Ireland with none.
    The meeting at that point would have been pointless. The people with the ability to thrash it out where already in session.
    Getting everybody into a room could have for sure seen things progress. Last weeks meeting did not have the same objective as next's week's does.

    There was salvage mission on the cards then. Next week it's an autopsy.


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    #5348
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    The GAA has around 1 million members. You'd be hard pushed to find any committee in Ireland with none.

    Agree absolutely, but it isn't hard to find a chairperson who isn't a member is it?
    Getting everybody into a room could have for sure seen things progress. Last weeks meeting did not have the same objective as next's week's does.

    There was salvage mission on the cards then. Now it's it an autopsy.
    Keegan and the Lord Mayor could never have found a solution.
    Keegan and Aiken could and did, within the law and the granted licence, but Brooks rejected it. Go figure.


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    #5349
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Agree absolutely, but it isn't hard to find a chairperson who isn't a member is it?

    He's not just concerned with the chairperson though.

    He has suggested that he would not be happy with any member of the Oireachtas committee being present if they were also GAA members.


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    #5350
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users Posts: 12,584 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Bejabbers and begorrah.

    10509562_737585569620292_3281024852717291393_n.jpg

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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    #5351
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Bejabbers and begorrah.

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    I'd say DCC are trembling! :)


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    #5352
    The_Morrigan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,368 ✭✭✭The_Morrigan


    Why are they protesting outside the GPO? What have An Post done in this whole affair?


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    #5353
    CapricornOne
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭CapricornOne


    The_Morrigan wrote: »
    Why are they protesting outside the GPO? What have An Post done in this whole affair?

    Garth's staging equipment is arriving via registered post. They're there to welcome it.


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    #5354
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,790 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    The_Morrigan wrote: »
    Why are they protesting outside the GPO? What have An Post done in this whole affair?

    Sure it's basically the same as the Easter rising.


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    #5355
    baaba maal
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    The_Morrigan wrote: »
    Why are they protesting outside the GPO? What have An Post done in this whole affair?

    Didn't Garth say he would swim, crawl, post or fly over to beg Enda? They're obviously there to collect him (and pay the excess weight charge too)


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    #5356
    Fortyjocks
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭Fortyjocks


    Well at least we know now from their protest what arrived in the infamous crates coming in on that long lost ship :-) maybe theres room for a scaffolder in one on the way back ;-)


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    #5357
    dobsdave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dobsdave


    The_Morrigan wrote: »
    Why are they protesting outside the GPO? What have An Post done in this whole affair?

    They were on their way to the DCC offices, (which would possibly be closed on a Saturday?)


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    #5358
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    OldGoat wrote: »
    MOD: Stop baiting each other

    I read that in a country accent for some reason. ;)


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    #5359
    sunbabe08
    Registered Users Posts: 6,323 ✭✭✭sunbabe08


    Protesting outside the dail I get, but the GPO? Um surely the DCC building would have made more sense.


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    #5360
    The_Morrigan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,368 ✭✭✭The_Morrigan


    Mr.S wrote: »
    Central Location with high amount of people passing by.

    I pass the GPO a lot, I pay no attention to any of the loonies that use it as a stage for their cause, and I don't think I'm alone in that.


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    #5361
    paddyirish23
    Registered Users Posts: 459 ✭✭paddyirish23


    Work going on behind the scenes that enda has someone working on emergency legislation for the concerts :)


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    #5362
    Grid.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,370 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


    Can we lock this thread now?


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    #5363
    CapricornOne
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭CapricornOne


    paddyirish23 wrote: »
    Work going on behind the scenes that enda has someone working on emergency legislation for the concerts :)

    Don't twist things. Not once has anyone said it's from Enda himself. In fact all we have atm is the word of one poster.


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    #5364
    paddyirish23
    Registered Users Posts: 459 ✭✭paddyirish23


    CapricornOne wrote: »
    Don't twist things. Not once has anyone said it's from Enda himself. In fact all we have atm is the word of one poster.

    One can hope someone is doing something sorry to be optimistic unlike most ppl here


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    #5365
    Munster_Gal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Munster_Gal


    Just came across this on twitter......


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    #5366
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,790 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    https://twitter.com/Donal_OKeeffe/status/488078302125752320

    Hearing from a reliable source that the Taoiseach has rubbished rumours of emergency legislation on #GarthBrooks.


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    #5367
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    Munster_Gal wrote: »
    Just came across this on twitter......

    Yeah the stage. Its painful now.

    Its in tomorrows sunday world.


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    #5368
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭secman


    Aiken still trying to salvage 3 days, refunds put back till Thursday.


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    #5369
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    He's not just concerned with the chairperson though.

    He has suggested that he would not be happy with any member of the Oireachtas committee being present if they were also GAA members.

    No diehard fan of the man but perfectly ordinary rhetoric prior to a committee grilling I would have thought.


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    #5370
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/Donal_OKeeffe/status/488078302125752320

    Hearing from a reliable source that the Taoiseach has rubbished rumours of emergency legislation on #GarthBrooks.

    Good. A Garth Brooks concert is not an emergency. As much as I feel for people during all this a grip needs to be gotten now at this stage.


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    #5371
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    secman wrote: »
    Aiken still trying to salvage 3 days, refunds put back till Thursday.

    Ridiculous that Aiken and Croke Park seem to have let him write his own contract.


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