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

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    #992
    ThisRegard
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    bryangiggsy wrote: »
    Did i say that ?! No !! But 50 million in this day and age should not be pi$$ed away... Coz a few residents have the hump

    Where's the 50 million coming from?


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    #993
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    lazygal wrote: »
    I never knew his first name was Troyal. You do learn something new every day. Troyal. Troyal.
    Except in Europe, where it is Troyale with cheese.


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    #994
    Sam Kade
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    lazygal wrote: »
    I never knew his first name was Troyal. You do learn something new every day. Troyal. Troyal.

    Don't worry about it many still don't know that his second name is Garth :)


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    #995
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    slimjimmc wrote: »
    many of the submissions were submitted on behalf of multiple persons.
    Exactly, that makes it hard to quantify the number of actual people represented (less the alleged forged ones)

    Same with tickets. 400,000 sold, most fans have multiple tickets. Plenty of touts left with tickets, there were 2000 for sale on StubHub last week.
    I'd say about 200,000 individual people, no more than 250,000. Each person could have been accommodated once over 3 nights.


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    #996
    Larbre34
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    Do you know what Brooks, at this stage just **** off. And stay ****ed off. Stop playing with peoples emotions. Imagine the shows were back on and a bunch of people already had their travel and accommodation refunded and got gouged when they tried to get it back.

    What a t**t.


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    #997
    Mrs Garth Brooks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,865 ✭✭✭Mrs Garth Brooks


    When is the ship due in Dublin?

    Im fed up with all the false hope. Where do all the ships pull in up there? Im tempted to go up there and sit at the docks and wait for it myself.


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    #998
    Guy:Incognito
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    end of the road wrote: »
    the GAA bullied nobody, it was the few vocal residents bullying the GAA and the country

    The leader of whom lives in Castleknock.


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    #999
    [Deleted User]
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    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    When is the ship due in Dublin?

    Im fed up with all the false hope. Where do all the ships pull in up there? Im tempted to go up there and sit at the docks and wait for it myself.

    Ships? what ships? is he sailing into Dublin?


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    #1000
    Dr.MickKiller
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    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/garth-brooks-letter-if-the-powersthatbe-can-save-this-i-will-play-in-ireland-30419570.html
    Garth Brooks wrote:
    I cannot begin to tell you how badly my heart is breaking right now

    Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart


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    #1001
    hmmm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    At this stage it's like listening to an 8 year old trying to blackmail their parents into allowing them stay up late.


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    #1002
    jd007
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    Absolute quality from Waterford Whispers news:

    The reply from Peter Aiken!


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    #1003
    Mrs Garth Brooks
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    Jake1 wrote: »
    Ships? what ships? is he sailing into Dublin?

    The stage is on a ship and is on the way anyway.


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    #1004
    Piliger
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    cmac2009 wrote: »
    Yeah get the Taoiseach involved, it's surely important enough. God almighty this country is unbelievable at times.

    So when a quarter of a million people are pissed off and have been screwed by a few dozen nymbys, that doesn't qualify for being of interest to the prime minster when the total pop is only 4 million ? What BS.


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    #1005
    CapricornOne
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    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    When is the ship due in Dublin?

    Im fed up with all the false hope. Where do all the ships pull in up there? Im tempted to go up there and sit at the docks and wait for it myself.

    You're surely trolling at this stage


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    #1006
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    HardLuckWoman wrote: »
    When is the ship due in Dublin?

    Im fed up with all the false hope. Where do all the ships pull in up there? Im tempted to go up there and sit at the docks and wait for it myself.

    The ship is rounding the bend in Rosslare as I type :D
    Head for the bookies and throw €1000 on that the concerts will go ahead ;)


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    #1007
    Umaro
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    bryangiggsy wrote: »
    Am calling it here now. Common sense will prevail and a way will be found for the 5 shows to go ahead. Im not a fan. I dont have tickets. Too much money involved too many stakeholders going to lose out. The country is debt ridden. Time for Enda to stand up and grow a set. The residents will get over it.

    Ireland National Debt: € 179,956,919,397

    Garth Brooks gigs are worth € 50,000,000 supposedly.

    This is the equivalent of you being in debt to the tune of €18,000, and me handing you a fiver. Its nice, but its not going to kickstart an economic recovery.


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    #1008
    lazygal
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    Dr.MickKiller wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/garth-brooks-letter-if-the-powersthatbe-can-save-this-i-will-play-in-ireland-30419570.html



    Don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
    Aiken Breakin Heart.
    Which was by Billy Ray Cyrus not Troyal Brooks.


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    #1009
    end of the road
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    Ace2007 wrote: »
    I see you disappeared yesterday when the news was announced

    i was busy, did you miss me?

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #1010
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Jake1 wrote: »
    Ships? what ships? is he sailing into Dublin?

    He got friends in wet places.


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    #1011
    Grandeeod
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    Grayson wrote: »
    Name one time in the last 30 years where a planning authority of any sort have allowed 5 concerts of that size to be held on consecutive nights in Ireland.

    Or anything close to that.

    Time doesn't stand still. Things do change. Some people stay the same.


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    #1012
    ThisRegard
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    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    The leader of whom lives in Castleknock.

    Spokesperson.


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    #1013
    Sir Arthur Daley
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    Into cobh they are coming, one big ship with 18 semis.


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    #1014
    lazygal
    Registered Users Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Time doesn't stand still. Things do change. Some people stay the same.

    That sounds like the opening to one of Troyal's hits.


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    #1015
    Ace2007
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    end of the road wrote: »
    i was busy, did ya miss me?

    strange the only day in the GB saga of big news that you miss is the day all the concerts got cancelled.
    sounds like you couldn't take being wrong and so hid under a rock.


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    #1016
    Mrs Garth Brooks
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    The ship is rounding the bend in Rosslare as I type :D
    Head for the bookies and throw €1000 on that the concerts will go ahead ;)

    Too risky


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    #1017
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 29,081 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    They broke their agreement with the residence.

    In the last 6 months they have not once come out and publically denied such an agreement exists when ever media organisations reports on it - now I wonder why that is?

    I love the way you think a few people stopped the concert - when a few posts before it was the DCC. The fact of the matter GB choice cancelled the concerts.
    no agreement was broken. if there was an agreement then none of the GB concerts would have been given the go ahead, so no need for the GAA to deny anything

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #1018
    Titzon Toast
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    Why are people still blaming the residents?
    It was Garth Brooks that cancelled the three gigs he was given permission for after all.

    It was Aitken who deliberately waited till the very last minute to apply for planning permission in the hope that they'd be able to leverage the planning authority with the fact that they'd already sold 400,000 tickets.

    And don't tell me that they didn't know about the agreement between the GAA and the residents beforehand either. They tried to be cute and it bit them in the ass. When where these tickets sold? January? Why didn't they apply for permission months ago and get things out in the open early?

    I guarantee you if they'd just went after three gigs at the start, they'd have gotten away with it with just some rightful grumbling from the residents. Instead, they got greedy, and the residents fought back. Fair play to them as well.


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    #1019
    Grandeeod
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    lazygal wrote: »
    That sounds like the opening to one of Troyal's hits.


    I beg you implicitly, do not confuse me with a Garth Brooks fan!:D


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    #1020
    Ace2007
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    end of the road wrote: »
    no agreement was broken. if there was an agreement then none of the GB concerts would have been given the go ahead, so no need for the GAA to deny anything

    the licence was between the DCC and the promoter - not the GAA, so the licence not being given is separate to the agreement which was between the GAA and the residence. Keep digging - GB cancelled the concerts - no one else.

    Tickets for the event were sold subject to licence so everyone was well aware that if the licence was not granted that the concerts would not go ahead, everyone.


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    #1021
    curioser
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    bryangiggsy wrote: »
    Am calling it here now. Common sense will prevail and a way will be found for the 5 shows to go ahead. Im not a fan. I dont have tickets. Too much money involved too many stakeholders going to lose out. The country is debt ridden. Time for Enda to stand up and grow a set. The residents will get over it.
    Don't agree. The government is obviously on message that it cannot and must not interfere with the DCC decision, otherwise Michael Ring would be out, front and centre, spouting all sorts of encouragement to the ticket holders, knowing that there was a solution in the offing.


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