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Garth Brooks concerts cancelled - **READ FIRST POST FOR MOD NOTES**

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    #4352
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    And no 'National Concert' to go to. Smart!

    watch the money abroad . . smarter :)


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    #4353
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Is James Garner still on contradicting everyone's posts :mad:


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    #4354
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Is James Garner still on contradicting everyone's posts :mad:

    I came back after the world cup and the haters are still here, but it is pretty easy.

    I bet these fat keyboard warriors hate football as well


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    #4355
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Is James Garner still on contradicting everyone's posts :mad:

    desperators gonna desperate


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    #4356
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    I went for pints for the world cup final, did i miss anything?


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    #4357
    Ace2007
    Registered Users Posts: 19,705 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    That's for the DPP to decide, are they prosecuting him ?
    Aiken met with DCC, ran it past them and incorporated all their requested requirements into the plans. At no time was he led to believe there would be any problem.
    Aiken applied 14 weeks before the concerts.
    No concert licence has been refused in 30 years by DCC.
    Do you think its acceptable that given all this, DCC decide without any warning to refuse these concerts just two weeks before they start ?
    Do you think its acceptable to decide all national concert events 2 weeks before their dates ? what kind of backwater system elsewhere in the developed world runs that way ? They are an international laughing stock.

    You can break the law without being prosecuted, but I was asking you to at least acknowledge that Aiken broke the law - but your just trying to side step the question, fairly standard by posters on here.

    The regulations are part of the Planning and Development (Licensing of Outdoor Events) Regulations. They are not made by DCC. Why not take a pop at the civil servants that came up with them, or the government for signing off on them?

    Of course it's not acceptable, but it's equally not acceptable for the GAA to have no regard for the residents.

    Why bother having a licencing process then if you assume they are all going to be granted? I believe that this is the first time that 5 concerts by the same artiest is taken place in a stadium like Croke Park - so it is unique in that sense.

    The residents stated in early Feb that they would take legal action if the concerts where awarded licence, therefor imo the licence should have been applied for ASAP so that fans could make alternative arrangements if needed.

    The laws need to change - but for posters to constantly blame the DCC and attack anyone who stands up for their rights is just wrong. Aiken could have handled the situation a lot better.

    Croke Park themselves acknowledge that mistakes were made in the whole process.


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    #4358
    MonsterCookie
    Registered Users Posts: 957 ✭✭✭MonsterCookie


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    I came back after the world cup and the haters are still here, but it is pretty easy.

    I bet these fat keyboard warriors hate football as well

    Has anyone noticed that EOTR has gone all quiet since JR started trolling us...that's the JR that just registered with boards this month? And is just as irrational in his comments? Just saying...


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    #4359
    muddypaws
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    hynesie08 wrote: »
    I went for pints for the world cup final, did i miss anything?

    Dublin and Ireland are going to be set loose :confused:

    Apparently lots of fat people on here, and also people who don't like football.

    I think thats about it.


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    #4360
    muddypaws
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    MonsterCookie wrote: »
    Has anyone noticed that EOTR has gone all quiet since JR started trolling us...that's the JR that just registered with boards this month? And is just as irrational in his comments? Just saying...

    I think Jimbob is vertically challenged.


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    #4361
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    240,000 . . . don't think the GB concert goer haters could handle that either

    Try and make sense, there's a good chap.


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    #4362
    secman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,298 ✭✭✭secman


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Ticketmaster annouced the postponement of the refunds of concerts 4 and 5 today.
    They will be officially on by the end of the week, when the higher authorities have given DCC every chance, and step in to overrule DCC's fiasco shenanigans, then watch the haters choke on their bananas again . . . even Enda knows the value or 400,000 voters.

    Deludion of the highest order.TM I can assure you are just waiting to press the refund button on all 5 gigs, its ready to go, Spoofer Aiken is delaying the inevitable.


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    #4363
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,669 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    In terms of the "dumbest events in Irish history" - where would this fiasco rank in a top 10, say?

    They couldn't have written a much better script for an episode of Father Ted.


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    #4364
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    secman wrote: »
    Deludion of the highest order.TM I can assure you are just waiting to press the refund button on all 5 gigs, its ready to go, Spoofer Aiken is delaying the inevitable.

    Well then the haters and loosers can enjoy watching us spend our money abroad instead :) Everyone's happy.


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    #4365
    Ace2007
    Registered Users Posts: 19,705 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    secman wrote: »
    Deludion of the highest order.TM I can assure you are just waiting to press the refund button on all 5 gigs, its ready to go, Spoofer Aiken is delaying the inevitable.

    To be fair, it's not really delusion, I wouldn't be surprised to see 3 concerts going ahead with a deal that he can play the Aviva in 2015 or even Croke Park with strict conditions impose of the GAA regarding future concerts.


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    #4366
    JRant
    Registered Users Posts: 12,966 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    secman wrote: »
    Deludion of the highest order.TM I can assure you are just waiting to press the refund button on all 5 gigs, its ready to go, Spoofer Aiken is delaying the inevitable.

    I have it on good authority that senior Government officials asked the Dept of Environment to draft up an emergency bill to get these gigs on. With the bill to be immediately repealled once the gigs happened.

    Turned out to be a non-runner, with the Dept then clarifying their positions with a brief to both Mr Keegan and Mr Kenny. Of course Enda went off on his own tangent and more or less ignored what the Dept of Environment had to say on the matter.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



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    #4367
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Well then the haters and loosers can enjoy watching us spend our money abroad instead :) Everyone's happy.

    Big deal.
    People leave the country everyday of the week on biz and hols...why do you think we should ignore the law because you choose to spend a few quid abroad?

    A sense of perspective would help you immensely.


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    #4368
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    JRant wrote: »
    I have it on good authority that senior Government officials asked the Dept of Environment to draft up an emergency bill to get these gigs on. With the bill to be immediately repealled once the gigs happened.

    Turned out to be a non-runner, with the Dept then clarifying their positions with a brief to both Mr Keegan and Mr Kenny. Of course Enda went off on his own tangent and more or less ignored what the Dept of Environment had to say on the matter.

    DCC were given every chance to sort out their own incompetent mess. Enda knows the economic and political repercussions of supporting the hatefest of 400,000 people. Hope you enjoy watching reports of all 5 being on this week.


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    #4369
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Big deal.
    People leave the country everyday of the week on biz and hols...why do you think we should ignore the law because you choose to spend a few quid abroad?

    A sense of perspective would help you immensely.

    Yep 400,000 nobodies, sure you don't want the business, plenty do, everybody is happy


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    #4370
    JRant
    Registered Users Posts: 12,966 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Well then the haters and loosers can enjoy watching us spend our money abroad instead :) Everyone's happy.

    If you live here there is no way to avoid spending money here. You're sending hard earned cash up to Dublin even now by purchasing internet access. I bet that feels real good.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



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    #4371
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    JRant wrote: »
    If you live here there is no way to avoid spending money here. You're sending hard earned cash up to Dublin even now by purchasing internet access. I bet that feels real good.

    What feels even better is I don't pay for internet access, now that's real good :)


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    #4372
    Effects
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    JRant wrote: »
    I have it on good authority that senior Government officials asked the Dept of Environment to draft up an emergency bill to get these gigs on. With the bill to be immediately repealled once the gigs happened.

    Turned out to be a non-runner, with the Dept then clarifying their positions with a brief to both Mr Keegan and Mr Kenny. Of course Enda went off on his own tangent and more or less ignored what the Dept of Environment had to say on the matter.

    Yeah, I know that as fact too. I heard it from my brother in laws sisters mate who works with a guy who heard it from someone who works in the Dept of Environment.


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    #4373
    JRant
    Registered Users Posts: 12,966 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    DCC were given every chance to sort out their own incompetent mess. Enda knows the economic and political repercussions of supporting the hatefest of 400,000 people. Hope you enjoy watching reports of all 5 being on this week.

    Unfortunately for Enda this debacle, along with the Shatter nonsense, proves he doesn't know the laws of the land.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



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    #4374
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    JRant wrote: »
    Unfortunately for Enda this debacle, along with the Shatter nonsense, proves he doesn't know the laws of the land.

    As the planning tribunals proved, laws are the last thing DCC and their cronies are interested in. The haters are going to enjoy the enda smack down this week.


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    #4375
    JRant
    Registered Users Posts: 12,966 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    Effects wrote: »
    Yeah, I know that as fact too. I heard it from my brother in laws sisters mate who works with a guy who heard it from someone who works in the Dept of Environment.

    That wasn't my source.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



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    #4376
    muddypaws
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    What feels even better is I don't pay for internet access, now that's real good :)

    Did your Mammy and Daddy pay for your ticket as well?


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    JRant
    Registered Users Posts: 12,966 ✭✭✭✭JRant


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    As the planning tribunals proved, laws are the last thing DCC and their cronies are interested in

    And the Warren commission proved there was a 'magic' bullet, go figure.

    "Well, yeah, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man"



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    #4378
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    muddypaws wrote: »
    Did your Mammy and Daddy pay for your ticket as well?

    My Father passed away in February. Why what's it to you ?


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    #4379
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Jim Rockford wrote: »
    Yep 400,000 nobodies, sure you don't want the business, plenty do, everybody is happy

    You have an over active imagination gland.
    If 400,000 spend their few quid aboard I'm sure we'll get over it.


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    #4380
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    JRant wrote: »
    And the Warren commission proved there was a 'magic' bullet, go figure.

    Looks like you've been watching too many movies again


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    #4381
    Jim Rockford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭Jim Rockford


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    You have an over active imagination gland.
    If 400,000 spend their few quid aboard I'm sure we'll get over it.

    Doubt the haters will ever get over their hate :)


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