Garth Brooks - Croke Pk Sept 2022

Wonder will we see a reissue of his 1997 Croke Park DVD for Xmas

Physical media may be still alive for a portion of Garths target audience

horny ole ones on the piss for five nights.

Do people not remember line dancing sweeping this island??

Go stick on The Thunder Rolls and you'll have a clue as to how this legend has sold out 5 nights.

legend me arse. Ask your average music fan to name two songs of his? Big country music star yes, legend no.

He looked like a farmer on the way to the mart the other day in croke park.

Clonliffe and Croke Park Residents groups have come out and said 5 dates is unacceptable. Plenty more water to pass under the bridge in this again.

It absolutely beggars belief that Brooks' people and Aikens and the GAA could be so absolutely and utterly bloody stupid as to not deal with the local community issue first. Again!!

Don't loose your online receipts yet folks, refunds may be needed.

My tickets are tightly held....

The guy quoted in the Rte article even admits theres no legal mechanism for the residents to challenge. The extra licences have been granted. It's done homer.

Yes it happens in other Countries. I know from family in London that the big footballs clubs must have community engagement plans in place which put limits on fixtures, noise, light, crowd movement windows, access and so on. And those are very much respected.

Your analogy is false anyway, when it comes to field games, the reason there are many stadiums in a tournament is not just the fixture congestion, its the recovery time of the playing surface. If Croke Park was a World Cup venue for some reason, it might host 2 matches in 10 days and those would be nowhere near as late as concert hours either.

5 nights in a row wasn't on in 2014. Five nights in 10 days is not really much of a difference and someone is going to challenge it, I'm certain.

Plenty of moaners on this thread too, just get over the fact that country music is popular in Ireland for God sake. Brooks was gigantic in the early 90s and Ireland has a long relationship with country music.

This is nothing new, Gene Autry attracted a crowd of 100,000 people in Dublin in 1939, literally just to see him parade down the street on a horse. Country has its roots in European folk, and black Delta blues from the earlier 20th century.

Brooks gigs in Dublin from 1997 are fondly remembered by many, including non country fans. Certain events are remembered for different reasons and take on an almost mythical status. Not a fan? That's grand, but just because you don't get it dosent mean your right.

Coming from Greystones. I know the DART would be ideal and coming in would be fine given every second train starts here (so guaranteed seats), but don't want to put her through potentially having to stand the whole way back given how jammed it will be, she wouldnt be able for it. I'm happy to do any amount of driving and being stuck in traffic won't be a big deal as long as they're comfortable, I'm just a bit clueless as to what my plan should be.

Could start a thread in CA or politics for that. Not sure the fans want to talk about whatever it is you do.

Not talking about you specifically but going into concert thread to just complain about the singer is like going into one of the many sports teams threads just to say you don't like the team. I dont understand that mentality.

What are you on about? Build a new stadium? Why? It's something like the 5th biggest stadium in Europe, totally redeveloped not so long ago and let's not even talk about the history.

He is mistaken. There is no role for An Bord Pleanála in appealing a Council grant of an event licence, but the High Court could easily be asked to carry out a judicial review and injunct the concerts.

Don't take my word for it, I notice Paddy Power are now offering 6/4 that the 5 will be cancelled again and they're no fools.

Anyway, don't hold onto them too tight, you may need to submit them for a refund yet.

A) They are not offering that price on all concerts being cancelled. They are offering it on 4 or less taking place. There are other things at play that could see them not going ahead. An ongoing global pandemic being one.

B) They went odds-on on about 5 people to be the next Man Utd manager over the last 5 days, none of whom are getting the job. Their prices on "special" or novelty markets often need to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Hey, they might be cancelled. Doesn't really bother me as i'm not going but it would disappoint a lot of people. You seem to really want it to happen for some reason though. I'd personally be very surprised if they were (for any reason other than the pandemic, illness etc) as i'd be amazed if all parties involved weren't 101% sure that there was no legal basis for any challenge.

Looks like they're not the only troll here.

Got 2 tickets at 5 pm yesterday. I was a kid when the 1994 line dancing craze happened. I'm really into country music and americana anyway. Garth is 100% about nostalgia for me as there's way better country music singers - most of whom are long since dead or in their 80s+ and wouldnt come here anyway - but no one matches GB for the nostalgia train. Maybe that's it? I dont understand why he's so popular here but I'm just happy to get tickets.

AFAIK Brooks isn't on Spotify. So you'd never hear her play his stuff there anyway.

That's a bit of an exaggeration on the price there. Some sort of fancy gold circle price maybe but totally agree the prices for this were quite reasonable.