Croke Park residents legal bid to halt Garth Brooks concerts?

[Aaron Boone]

Far more chance of shenanigans with the One Direction concerts in May. Garth Brooks concerts will not attract anything worse than traffic jams.

Fair play to GAA for resisting the temptation for a 6th and 7th Garth concert(s) which would have inevitably also sold out.

[Drummerboy]

5 days is far too much, especially when you consider the large amount of very elderly residents in the area. 2 concerts would be fine, but 5 is over the top.

[Eamonnca1]

5 days is far too much, especially when you consider the large amount of very elderly residents in the area. 2 concerts would be fine, but 5 is over the top.

And how, pray tell, does it affect elderly residents more than the youngsters?

[Cold tea]

Far more chance of shenanigans with the One Direction concerts in May. Garth Brooks concerts will not attract anything worse than traffic jams.

Fair play to GAA for resisting the temptation for a 6th and 7th Garth concert(s) which would have inevitably also sold out.

Young girls with their mummys and aunties, you think that will get out of hand!

[Drummerboy]

5 days is far too much, especially when you consider the large amount of very elderly residents in the area. 2 concerts would be fine, but 5 is over the top.

And how, pray tell, does it affect elderly residents more than the youngsters?

Basically, if they drive themselves, they can't move their car as their space will be taken. If they don't drive, their families our unable to visit them because there is nowhere to park.

[rrhf]

surely its nothing a locka pound per head  wouldnt sort out...

[AZOffaly]

Maybe the residents are doing the math. €65 a pop x 80,0000 x 5 = €26 million. Croker I think are taking about €5 mill. That leaves €21 mill for costs and splitting between Garth Brooks and his management company. Maybe the residents are seeing a couple of million that could be taken out of Garth's cut for their area. Might be a nice gesture to offer to build a kids playground there or something maybe?

[JPGJOHNNYG]

A couple of million for the residents and local area! - If we are talking that sort of money then the GAA needs to start buying up the surrounding properties - it would work out cheaper for them in the long run

[AZOffaly]

Not from the GAA, from Garth Brooks' cut.

[AZOffaly]

Just before we go down the "these residents are greedy bastids - fcuk them" route. Can we just clarify that this is the suggestion of an Offaly man living in Tipperary and is not what the residents have asked for?

Absolutely. Happy to clarify that. No suggestion anywhere that anyone is looking for money. Might be a nice gesture from the concert organisers though. I'm not talking about lining anyone's pockets either.

[AZOffaly]

You're 100% correct, and right to point it out.

[deiseach]

Just before we go down the "these residents are greedy bastids - fcuk them" route. Can we just clarify that this is the suggestion of an Offaly man living in Tipperary and is not what the residents have asked for?

Absolutely. Happy to clarify that. No suggestion anywhere that anyone is looking for money. Might be a nice gesture from the concert organisers though. I'm not talking about lining anyone's pockets either.

Thank you. It's just that if we have a couple of pages of us weighing up the pros and cons of giving a couple of million euro to the residents or investing it into their area, by the end of it there are people on this board who will actually believe that this has been asked for.

For example, a newspaper ran a story about Casement Park and a quote from the chairman of the residents' committee which read along the lines of "I don't know of anybody who has asked for 20,000 pounds to let it go ahead". Tony Fearon for some reason told gaaboard that he read this quote as the chairman of MORA looking 20,000 pounds to let it go ahead. He had a few thickos believing this too until myself and a couple of others asked for the quote.

It's amazing that this needs to be said, but it probably does. The hostility towards the various residents in these situations is completely disproportionate.

[BennyHarp]

If it was agreed between Croke Park that 3 special, non GAA events were allowed per year as suggested by the residents - then these 5 events plus the 2 One Direction concerts, suggests that the residents have every right to be annoyed if they weren't consulted.

[thejuice]

Would gladly have 10 shows in Navan instead.

Could really do with a bit of money out our way.

[under the bar]

I know a Garth Brooks impersonator who will gladly put on an open-air show for the residents if they can't get tickets for the real GB...