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

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    #1622
    humanji
    Registered Users Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Piliger wrote: »
    Except there is none, and the attempt falls flat.
    An organisation telling people to accept rulings without question while refusing to accept a ruling? Yep, no hypocrisy there.

    Piliger wrote: »
    Brooks has let no one down. He made a deal and it was broken. The DCC ignored a quarter of a million people. He is totally blameless.
    Except for that whole "I'm taking my ball and going home, to hell with the rest of you who blew money on me" part.


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    #1623
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    humanji wrote: »
    No, he's just screwing over 3 concerts worth of fans in a gamble that he can blackmail the country into doing what he wants.

    If only he was Kenny Rogers, there'd be a great chance of a joke here.


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    #1624
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    h2005 wrote: »
    Is there legislation with regard taking frivolous injunctions?

    There's a term for it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champerty_and_maintenance

    Champerty is the something new I learned today.


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    #1625
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    He's not screwing anybody over..

    He's just doesn't feel that 160,000 ticket holders should be treated so poorly, as to have the concerts they were due to attend, cancelled just three weeks before they were to take place. Especially when they have held those tickets for over five months, all the while looking forward to seeing him perform, arranging time off, perhaps bookings flights, hotels etc etc. Just a shame the people in the ticket holder's own country didn't give them as much consideration as Garth clearly is.
    So why did he decide to do the exact same thing to 240,000 more ticket holders by cancelling the first 3.

    Imagine this - 400,000 fans pre-order his new album on CD. Due to a strike in the factory only 240,000 are made.
    Do he then refuse to sell any CDs so as not to upset the 160,000?


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    #1626
    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,469 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Piliger wrote: »
    Brooks has let no one down. He made a deal and it was broken. The DCC ignored a quarter of a million people. He is totally blameless.

    Irony? GAA and Aitken.


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    #1627
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    So why did he decide to do the exact same thing to 240,000 more ticket holders by cancelling the first 3.

    Imagine this - 400,000 fans pre-order his new album on CD. Due to a strike in the factory only 240,000 are made.
    Do he then refuse to sell any CDs so as not to upset the 160,000?

    They could buy it on iTunes instead. Oh, no wait.


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    #1628
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/mystery-grows-as-man-who-tried-to-stop-garth-brooks-gigs-claims-i-was-given-12000-to-fund-court-case-30420766.html

    Money coming from the North to damage the GAA? 2+2 = the work of Ulster Unionist Loyalists who have an absolute hatred of Ireland, all things Irish and most of all the GAA who were the bedrock of upsurge in Nationalism here.

    So if your disappointed as a Garth Brooks fan the responsibility for this fiasco belongs north of the Border. Hopefully common sense will prevail today and all 5 concerts will go ahead as planned.


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    #1629
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Stinicker wrote: »
    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/mystery-grows-as-man-who-tried-to-stop-garth-brooks-gigs-claims-i-was-given-12000-to-fund-court-case-30420766.html

    Money coming from the North to damage the GAA? 2+2 = the work of Ulster Unionist Loyalists who have an absolute hatred of Ireland, all things Irish and most of all the GAA who were the bedrock of upsurge in Nationalism here.

    So if your disappointed as a Garth Brooks fan the responsibility for this fiasco belongs north of the Border. Hopefully common sense will prevail today and all 5 concerts will go ahead as planned.

    That was pretty good post and quite funny until I got to the last sentence and realised you might be serious.

    Please tell me you weren't. Sometimes I can't spot when someone's joking.


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    #1630
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,896 ✭✭✭sabat


    I have a friend who's pretty high up in the PSNI who told me that Johnny Adair has reformed UVF C-Company to engage in black-ops missions to undermine the Irish state and that this was one of their opening salvos.


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    #1631
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    So why did he decide to do the exact same thing to 240,000 more ticket holders by cancelling the first 3.

    Imagine this - 400,000 fans pre-order his new album on CD. Due to a strike in the factory only 240,000 are made.
    Do he then refuse to sell any CDs so as not to upset the 160,000?
    barneystinson wrote: »
    The issue of the 160,000 was beyond his control. He chose not to perform for the other 240,000. Huge distinction, and he is screwing those people over in a game of brinksmanship to try to force the other 2 concerts through.
    humanji wrote: »
    No, he's just screwing over 3 concerts worth of fans in a gamble that he can blackmail the country into doing what he wants. I hope he sees sense, as does everyone else and they put on the 3 gigs and consider the 2 others at a later date. Otherwise we may as well dig up Charlie Haughey and put him in charge as we've learned nothing. But he's not the hero in the situation and he's not a victim.

    Well, what other option did he have? If he just accepted the offer of three, he would look like he didn't give a crap about the 160,000. He was put in a no-win situation. I think it's too early to say he's not the hero. He may very well be. If they can arrange dates for those two extra concerts that is.


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    #1632
    Rough Sleeper
    Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭Rough Sleeper


    Zaylee Thundering Soda wrote: »
    I'm sure a judge could be 'encouraged' to throw out any challenge fairly sharpish!
    When I think of this recession, I often wonder if or when people will forget about it and allow it all to happen anew. Then I read posts like this and I realise that some people don't really have any forgetting to do; they think that bribery, corruption and coercion are all fair game if there's some transient gain to be made for themselves, and **** everyone else.

    You speak of the fantastic fiscal gain to be made from these gigs then in the same breath advocate bribing or coercing a public official to get your own way. It's people who think like you who brought the country to its knees, and it's people who think like you who'll do it again.


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    #1633
    dandyo
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭dandyo


    For the love of God please, can someone say Mass...
    God, I love mass


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    #1634
    jack presley
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    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    Well, what other option did he have? If he just accepted the offer of three, he would look like he didn't give a crap about the 160,000. He was put in a no-win situation. I think it's too early to say he's not the hero. He may very well be. If they can arrange dates for those two extra concerts that is.

    Someone saving a life is a hero. Performing concerts, whether it be 3 or 5 is not.

    Still no answer to the query I had about the correspondence between 30 Jan and 3 Feb? Sorry if I missed your post with it.


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    #1635
    Hannibal Smith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,893 ✭✭✭Hannibal Smith


    Piliger wrote: »
    Brooks has let no one down. He made a deal and it was broken. The DCC ignored a quarter of a million people. He is totally blameless.

    He cancelled 5 gigs!!


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    #1636
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    He's just checking his email now...

    "and if I press this button General will the Croke Park problem go away"

    "Yes Mr. President, but I have to caution you Moneygall may suffer some collateral damage"

    "Well General, That's a risk I'm prepared to take"


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    #1637
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    I hope this all gets sorted out either sooner rather than later, if only to put an end to the needless mindless arguing , attempts at one upping one another, circular arguements and pontificating on this thread.

    Why oh why is not possible to have a thread on After Hours that does not descend into mindless sniping and bickering, begrudgery and petty politician bashing?

    Can we not just discuss this as the adults we are?


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    #1638
    humanji
    Registered Users Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    Well, what other option did he have? If he just accepted the offer of three, he would look like he didn't give a crap about the 160,000. He was put in a no-win situation. I think it's too early to say he's not the hero. He may very well be. If they can arrange dates for those two extra concerts that is.
    He could have done 3 gigs and planned 2 other at a later date. But he didn't. He chose blackmail. That's not what heroes do.


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    #1639
    gandalf
    Registered Users Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    I hope this all gets sorted out either sooner rather than later, if only to put an end to the needless mindless arguing , attempts at one upping one another, circular arguements and pontificating on this thread.

    Why oh why is not possible to have a thread on After Hours that does not descend into mindless sniping and bickering, begrudgery and petty politician bashing?

    Can we not just discuss this as the adults we are?

    You'll get banned from After Hours if you keep being sensible like that !!!!


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    #1640
    Jester252
    Registered Users Posts: 5,533 ✭✭✭Jester252


    Hannibal Smith wrote: »
    He cancelled 5 gigs!!

    His statement yesterday says otherwise.


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    #1641
    DebDynamite
    Registered Users Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭DebDynamite


    Stinicker wrote: »
    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/mystery-grows-as-man-who-tried-to-stop-garth-brooks-gigs-claims-i-was-given-12000-to-fund-court-case-30420766.html

    Money coming from the North to damage the GAA? 2+2 = the work of Ulster Unionist Loyalists who have an absolute hatred of Ireland, all things Irish and most of all the GAA who were the bedrock of upsurge in Nationalism here.

    So if your disappointed as a Garth Brooks fan the responsibility for this fiasco belongs north of the Border. Hopefully common sense will prevail today and all 5 concerts will go ahead as planned.

    Why were they all at a hurling match though?!


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    #1642
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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    #1643
    dandyo
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭dandyo


    This priest that fixed Dana's brother -- I'm sensing a Golden Cleric award


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    #1644
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,172 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Proper order. He should share an office with the Minister for Hoors and Roundabouts, though. Efficiency annt, innit!?! :pac::pac::pac:


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    #1645
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    gandalf wrote: »
    You'll get banned from After Hours if you keep being sensible like that !!!!

    I'm not trying to cause trouble, nothing at all like that!

    Just venting a little is all.


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    #1646
    Hannibal Smith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,893 ✭✭✭Hannibal Smith


    Jester252 wrote: »
    His statement yesterday says otherwise.

    ??? His statement yesterday said nothing new...5 gigs or nothing.


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    #1647
    dandyo
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭dandyo


    AudreyHepburn wrote: »
    I'm not trying to cause trouble, nothing at all like that!

    Just venting a little is all.

    A bigger boy made me do it, Sir


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    #1648
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    jack presley wrote: »
    Someone saving a life is a hero. Performing concerts, whether it be 3 or 5 is not.

    Oh ffs. Quit nitpicking.

    I was addressing a point put to me which used the word and in any case, to label someone a possible hero of a particular situation, doesn't in any way infer that they should be seen as a hero outside of it.


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    #1649
    Santa Cruz
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Santa Cruz


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    I'd say the cancellation of the first three is more down to economics. Apparently a massive show had been planned and wouldn't hit the break even point until the third night.

    There's another 20000 who couldn't get tickets so maybe we should consider eight concerts.


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    #1650
    muddypaws
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    Hannibal Smith wrote: »
    ??? His statement yesterday said nothing new...5 gigs or nothing.

    But it inferred that it wasn't him that cancelled


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    #1651
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    dandyo wrote: »
    A bigger boy made me do it, Sir

    :confused:


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