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

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    #2042
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    super_furry wrote: »
    He said that everyone must be treated equally at a Garth Brooks show.
    Saw that - he said everyone pays the same - unless you bought a premium ticket for €80


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    #2043
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Garth Brooks really does care though Guys like why all the hate for him

    Btw


    Did you know that if you say the word gullible slowly, it sounds just like Orange


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    #2044
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    What is it about that that people are not getting.. and he also said is willing to whatever it takes in order to make that happen.
    Except to obey the law of the country of Ireland.

    "Sort it out, then put laws in place"


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    #2045
    CountyHurler
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    For Reals wrote: »
    Could you see Obama calling Cry before dawn to iron things out if their gigs on Clevland got cancelled? Now, he's more respect for the office and public.

    Pick a realistic example ffs... Say, the Corrs have booked out Shay Stadium on their "We've Finished Raising Our Babies" Tour in 2015... and then the locals object to permission for the gigs on the grounds that they dont like that particular brand of Paddywhackery Pop music... Jim Corr schedules a press conference to ask President Obama why the concerts wont be allowed (and why he orchestrated 9/11).. .:D


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    #2046
    Morrisseeee
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    So..............are the Greedy Brooks concerts going ahead or what ?! :pac:


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    #2047
    Hotfail.com
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    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    That question was all but put to him..

    He did not want to play for the 240,000 and say tough crap to the 160,000.

    He wants to play concerts for ALL the 400,000!!!

    What is it about that that people are not getting.. and he also said is willing to whatever it takes in order to make that happen.

    If I could post "Money, Money, Money" by ABBA right now I would.


    Help me out guys! :pac:


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    #2048
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    Except to obey the law of the country of Ireland.

    "Sort it out, then put laws in place"

    What laws specifically have been broken?


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    #2049
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    super_furry wrote: »
    Yeah, he's so eager to play for 400,000 Irish people that he's going to play for none of them.

    If he said yes to the three concerts, the other two would be cancelled.

    Then it would be:

    "If Garth really cared about his fans, he would have held out for all the concerts"

    No matter what he did, he would have been vilified. It was and is a no win situation.

    He stuck to his guns though and what he is doing the ONLY way that there is a chance the 400,000 will all get their concerts.


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    #2050
    Tarzana
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    What laws specifically have been broken?

    Planning laws, if they go ahead.


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    #2051
    Woodville56
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    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
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    What is it about that that people are not getting.. and he also said is willing to whatever it takes in order to make that happen.

    "Whatever it takes" meaning a 5 gig pay packet !! If that's not his real agenda let's see him give the proceeds from the last 2 shows to local charities ....how about it Garth


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    #2052
    pl4ichjgy17zwd
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    I have tickets for the Monday night. I don't care what happens any more, I just want my money back. Such a joke. That press conference was the last embarrassing nail in the coffin.


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    #2053
    Menas
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    What laws specifically have been broken?

    None yet. But if our glorious leader tries to change the law of the land to allow all 5 gigs happen in 3 weeks time then we have a problem.


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    #2054
    sabat
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    Piliger wrote: »
    When 400,000 people in a country of 4million are passionate about an issue, and add their families to that, then I think it is the epitome of a democracy for the prime minister to get involved. That's what a democracy is all about and it's heartening to see it work properly.

    The same prime minister who refuses to ever speak publicly or engage in any form of open debate or answer any questions relating to the economy or the general running of the country? The same lightweight chinprick who's spent 40 years in parliament without a single notable achievement? The same vapid nonentity who worked as a primary school teacher for 18 months before inheriting his father's seat? The waxwork gombeen whose every single act in government has been to increase taxes as his EU masters tell him? Yeah this is democracy in action.


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    #2055
    Happyman42
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    What about the ship...did anyone think of the ship!!!:eek:


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    #2056
    Hotfail.com
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    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    If he said yes to the three concerts, the other two would be cancelled.

    Then it would be:

    "If Garth really cared about his fans, he would have held out for all the concerts"

    No matter what he did, he would have been vilified. It was and is a no win situation.

    He stuck to his guns though and what he is doing the ONLY way that there is a chance the 400,000 will all get their concerts.

    Ehm, no. People would have accepted that three gigs were all that were going to happen and would have took their refund and got over it.

    Not everyone has such little respect for the decision of the DCC as many people here seem to have.


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    #2057
    First Up
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    CountyHurler wrote: »
    Pick a realistic example ffs... Say, the Corrs have booked out Shay Stadium on their "We've Finished Raising Our Babies" Tour in 2015... and then the locals object to permission for the gigs on the grounds that they dont like that particular brand of Paddywhackery Pop music... Jim Corr schedules a press conference to ask President Obama why the concerts wont be allowed (and why he orchestrated 9/11).. .:D

    Two reasons why that is a ridiculous analogy;
    The name was Shea Stadium
    It was knocked down some years ago.


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    #2058
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    Woodville56 wrote: »
    "Whatever it takes" meaning a 5 gig pay packet !!

    Oh sweet marie. Are people really still trying to suggest his decision is motivated by money?!?

    It beggars belief.

    This is the guy that snubbed deals with iTunes that would have netted him well over €100million by now and yet people are saying he had some master-plan to make a mint here and that's why he's holding out for five. It's laughably absurd!


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    #2059
    SEPT 23 1989
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    Does Kenny and his gombeens not realise the damage they will do to themselves with the non redneck ****kicking linedancing voter if.they get the show on the road


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    #2060
    rolliepoley
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    Its all in the name.


    He'll Troyal he can to fill his pockets.


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    #2061
    Loire
    Registered Users Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭Loire


    The best thing about this whole debacle will be years from now watching "Reeling in the Years 2014"


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    #2062
    First Up
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    sabat wrote: »
    The same prime minister who refuses to ever speak publicly or engage in any form of open debate or answer any questions relating to the economy or the general running of the country? The same lightweight chinprick who's spent 40 years in parliament without a single notable achievement? The same vapid nonentity who worked as a primary school teacher for 18 months before inheriting his father's seat? The waxwork gombeen whose every single act in government has been to increase taxes as his EU masters tell him? Yeah this is democracy in action.

    Yep the same Taoiseach who inherited an economic disaster and turned it around. And since when has he been refusing to speak publicly about the economy?


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    #2063
    hmmm
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    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    This is the guy that snubbed deals with iTunes
    There is lots of bigtime artists that snubbed iTunes because they wanted fans paying 10 quid for albums and not 1 quid for an individual song. Most people only know about 2 or 3 GB songs, the rest they couldn't care less about.


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    #2064
    Fred Swanson
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    #2065
    Maphisto
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    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    If he said yes to the three concerts, the other two would be cancelled.

    Then it would be:

    "If Garth really cared about his fans, he would have held out for all the concerts"

    No matter what he did, he would have been vilified. It was and is a no win situation.

    He stuck to his guns though and what he is doing the ONLY way that there is a chance the 400,000 will all get their concerts.

    Well no matter what he does he will never get everyone's approval because I can't stand him.

    It strikes me as far better to disappoint 160,000, than 400,000 but then what do I know.

    Incidentally who is likely to have to cough for the damages that are likely be claimed? DCC by any chance?


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    #2066
    Flem31
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Flem31


    With the "oh we are not worthy" type questions from the Irish "journalists"...........I can't stop thinking of Steve Martin in Leap of Faith.....

    Leap of Faith Got Trouble
    cant post url as a new user, but first one is about a problem with a neighbour......priceless


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    #2067
    Captain Scarlet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Captain Scarlet


    Does anyone else here remember the Boomtown Rats "return to Ireland" gig in 1979, when they were due to play the RDS, except the residents objected, and then everywhere they tried in Dublin the residents did the same (we´ll have none of that foreign new wave nonsense here), and all of us who had bought tickets had to listen to Radio Dublin 253 to find out if the concert was going ahead, and at the last minute the guy who owned Leixlip Castle offered it as a venue, and CIE put on buses from the quays so we could all actually find out where Leixlip was, and it was a brilliant concert? Just wondering.


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    #2068
    Sir Oxman
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    This so cringe inducing - I'm mortified that our so-called leader is getting involved in this.


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    #2069
    RoyalCelt
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    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Who says 400,000 are 'passionate' about the issue?

    People booked a gig, not a religious event. You couldn't write the bull**** suppositions people are making here.

    i'd say they're a lot more passionate about the gig than their religion. most of them anyway. so i don't really get your point.

    we live in a democracy where the majority should rule and the majority in ireland are in favor. so i hope it goes ahead.


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    #2070
    Grandeeod
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    Loire wrote: »
    The best thing about this whole debacle will be years from now watching "Reeling in the Years 2014"

    It will be a Reeling in the years 2014 Special. 60 minutes dedicated to this debacle. The Christmas boxset edition will include an extra disc featuring an exclusive interview with Livelines " Mary", who was writing to the Pope about it.


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    #2071
    Hotfail.com
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    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »
    Oh sweet marie. Are people really still trying to suggest his decision is motivated by money?!?

    It beggars belief.

    This is the guy that snubbed deals with iTunes that would have netted him well over €100million by now and yet people are saying he had some master-plan to make a mint here and that's why he's holding out for five. It's laughably absurd!

    Source for €100 million claim please.


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