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Very good point's 😉

I'm afraid that I wouldn't know bodhrandude. I have no insight into this at all 🙂

It isn't. Presumably, FR/MCD stood down their team after the license was rejected so all the gear is likely still in the UK. You cannot mobilise to a large isolated site at the click of a finger.

I guess it could be done, if it were a case of run it at any costs but I believe the promoters are in the business of turning a profit. So no, it wasn't possible. A very much scaled back one might have been.

Couldn't agree more with your first two sentences! Tony is coming all out now with his "Moi?". And Leo, doing what he can for the folks... Both of them knowing that they are safe since the timelines are too short. The only one missing form the triumvirate is Micheal. Radio silence as ever, he thinks he has enough followers to get him through, what with the sports opening. He's getting himself ready to tell us we are at the edge of the promised land, we should be proud, he's proud, we've come a long long way together, blah, blah f ck ng blah. But the reality is they've left a cohort of people out in the wilderness, and will do for some time yet.

It does and as I said earlier, the most recent AG intervention didn't end well. The only thing missing from the photo caption is Leo wearing a Halo.

I'm not seeing anything the AG can do to reverse a decision by a local authority, open to correction of course. This has all the hallmarks of more trouble than it's worth at this stage, I suspect the AG will stay clear of this farcical mess. Leo will have to find somewhere other than Laois to fly his Kite 😉

Was that the year there was a maze of washing machines?

Yeah I think it was around the same area the Algorhythm light boxes were sitting in previous years near the entrance to main stage arena along with the Cubeatron in 2008.

Back stage to the main stage 2018.

The Haunt under construction 2018

A walk though the hole in the wall Staff entrance. 2018

Scarlxrd 2018

Death Grips 2018.

Some random politician on the news there saying they are all trying to get EP go ahead. Suggested they could do it in a sports ground and conceded that camping would be out in that case.

Ah Scarlxrd, mental, mental. I can see myself in your video, albeit "back 'n' sides" 😁

My ears were ringing after that gig then I went down the staff cross roads to Rankin Woods for Death Grips and onto the Prodigy closing set, a very rock n roll night.

Move where?

Laois CC have little to worry about and have prob pleased there voters.

From reading random bits seem EP made no exceptions on entry or reduction on numbers in its application (please feel free to correct if I am wrong).

So Laois CC were left in a tough spot. No point proposing new criteria if you don't include it in the application.

Now if Laois CC indicate a version could have happened with certain rules then it's EP's fault for not playing safe.

Heard on the radio that Laois CC literally cannot make it happen now. Assume the same approval process and timelines apply to all authorities so likely next year it is.

Loads of politicians must have got tickets !

I apologise if you feel I was reading your initial post as PUP bashing, on reading it back, it was exactly that. I understand now perhaps why your of the opinion PUP is the only cause of staff shortages in hospitality, its the same Mantra spun by industry lobby groups who blame everyone but themselves.

If as you say, your experienced, then my explanation re staff shortages is all the more clearer to you.

I'll leave it at that apart from saying pubs closing re covid outbreaks has Zero to do with the initial post you made, staff can hardly be blamed for a premises closing because of a Covid outbreak or perhaps you feel they can 🤔

Let's get back to the Topic at hand, you brought PUP into the discussion, I've no desire to discuss further.

I know. Some women not lifting a finger at home. ffs!