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RESIDENTS IN THE Croke Park area are said to be considering an injunction over summer concerts due to be held at the stadium.
It was announced today that Garth Brooks is to play a fifth gig at the venue, two more dates than originally anticipated.
Speaking on Newstalk today, Patrick Gates from the Clonliffe and Croke Park Area Residents Association said that the locals feel like they have been “let down” by politicians, council officials and gardaí over the disruption caused by events at Croke Park over the past 20 years.
He said that there is “the possibility of taking an injunction”, of having the concert stopped, or of asking for the licence not to be approved, or at least major restrictions put on the concerts.
“We don’t want our community locked down for five days,” he said.
As well as Garth Brooks, One Direction are also due to play multiple concerts, while an American Football game is also due to take place at Croke Park during the summer.
Fianna Fáil candidate for the North Inner City, Brian Mohan, urged the operators of Croke Park to “respect the concerns of local residents”.
He said he is looking for answers as to “how permission has been given to hold these extra dates, without any consultation with local residents.”
Mohan said that “many residents around Croke Villas and the Clonliffe area find it extremely difficult during these events”, and that while the gigs may bring a financial boost to local businesses, “the residents’ issues need to be respected”.
A major issue for locals is parking when events are taking place at Croke Park, he said.
A newsletter was sent to residents from today, saying that Croke Park Stadium is working with Aiken Promotions and local residents “to identify a specific legacy initiative for the local community following the Garth Brooks concerts”.
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My mate’s house is practically under one of the huge stands at Croker. When the residents called looking for support he looked up at the enormous stand and said:” Sorry folks, I noticed that structure when I bought the house.” He wasn’t the only resident who refused to get involved.
Your mate has good common sense.
I’m with the residents…..If I lived up that direction and had to listen to that fat bumpkin and his shite ‘music’ id take my case all the way to the UN
Why move in there if you’re not happy with events being there??? The UN would laugh at ya.
Plus I’d say they are not refusing free tickets if they win them in the raffle that takes place between all locals.
Those poor residents… whatever will they do? Imagine living beside a stadium and then finding out to your surprise that there were ‘EVENTS’ held there for largely twice a week during the day for 3 months then 20 nights over the course of the year.. any amount of free tickets doesn’t make up for the fact that they could be kept awake until 5 past the eleven on a summers evening – and only a couple of thousand Gardai and security to protect them from the placid crowds. Won’t someone please think of the children?
Them damn Springfieldians! Shake Harder Boy!
- now lets all celebrate with a nice glass of turnip juice.
Well Hound you are so poorly mid informed. I live near croke park I enjoy the buzz and craic when there is a match or event on. But I’m not to find of being locked out of my street from 5pm not able to get my child and all the bits that go with him in cos the road is blocked. And as for the 5 past 11 jibe the Garda chopper is in the air for at least an hour more maybe after an event.
And on average there are almost 40 events on mainly at weekends when these restrictions take place. We don’t object of complain. WE DONT GET FREE TICKETS. That’s a media spin by croke park.
Now five nights of this Sh1t is pushing it a bit too far.
An
the road is not blocked for residents. you go to fitzgibbon street garda station with proof of address and get a residents pass which is renewed every year
Wrong the streets immediately beside the stadium is – even with a pass during peak access / egress
Louise
Fitzgibbon Street closed over a year ago, only residents are permitted entry so no visitors, plus noise goes on well past end of concert and traffic foot and vehicle can take up to an hour to clear. Parking for residents woo are not immediately living by Croke eg Iona and Lower Drumcondra is a nightmare plus rubbish in gardens.
Free tickets don’t apply to the above areas. To put the facts straight.
Having said all that I normally enjoy the atmosphere but 5 nights is a bit much
Louise, I am a resident, have my pass and have often been stopped by gardai getting out or in if there are too many people walking. It’s no problem at weekends as you can time it, different story when you are trying to get home from work with kids during a week day.
really. I lived on fitzroy avenue for four years and never had a problem
Ehh I dont live there but my elderly mother does…..
Iona Drumcondra…the barriers are Clonliffe….
Gerry
You’re right I’m not referring to being denied access rather the problems parking, getting in and out as well as rubbish and worse in gardens.
The media have been reporting that the GAA are in for a nice windfall due to these concerts and the residents are just looking for a sweetener by threatening legal action.
I live beside Croke Park……5 nights of no parking outside my own home
I lived just off Fitzroy Ave and so long as I could show proof of address there was never an issue during events..
When I initially moved to the area, I was well aware that large events were going to be held there, so I think it is a bit rich to complain about it in this day and age..
croke park has been having events for nearly a 100 yrs at this stage…
@Robespierre
Are we talking about those streets where the residents sell water etc from their porches and car boots and making a healthy few quid tax free on every game/concert day?
That’s the most sensible comment of the whole lot. What a shower of clowns. :)
And it’s not just the streets immediately around the park either. Matches, concerts and events congest the whole of drumcondra. You can’t move your car for whole weekends in match time as you can’t get parking when you come back. Same for other events. Also there are thousands milling about on the streets, with quite a degree of drunken disorderliness and general disturbance. The streets are congested, the traffic is bumper to bumper and the public transport is insufficient to deal with the crowds. Its a regular occurrence throughout the year, not just a ‘handful’ of matches and a ‘few’ concerts.
Ah no. Actually concerts have only been held in croker since the mid 90s; many residents have been around well before then, with concerts never having been part of the expectation. Even with gaa matches there is no reason to expect local to put up with disorderly conduct, drunkenness ands excessive noise. Attend, enjoy the match, but have some consideration for the locals. Bin your rubbish and park reasonably and legally. Not on the local school playground as happen s regularly.
I live by the sea and have done for the last 6 odd years. I took an injunction out against the sun and summertime when I moved, I just didn’t want the hassle of people going to the beach and causing traffic jams. The original injunction was only for 5 years and ran out last year in April. After the fine weather last summer I’ve been saving for another trip to court for another injunction. I really can’t be having all these people going to the beach, clogging up my local roads and spending their money in local shops etc. so If we have a shite summer this year don’t blame our temperate Atlantic climate, blame me!
But then again Fergal ,,how many times did the sun shine for at least 4 hours for 5 consecutive days ?
Get yourself checked. ..
ah who’s there first croke pk or the residents? you choose to live there then deal with it!
Actually most houses were built before Croke park even existed, when it was a running track. Adding to the fact it was developed into a huge stadium in recent years
Yes Siobeli, but the people who lived there when the houses were first built are long dead. The people who live there now bought their houses knowing full well about Croker. My own uncle lives there and just accepts that reality. Otherwise he would have moved.
Ehh My mother was born there…some people …..no comment..
Yes, but she’s one of very few. My uncle still lives in my Grandparents house around there. He was born and raised there too. The vast majority of residents there are not living in their family homes.
There were much bigger crowds than 80,000 100 years ago match would have 100,000+ at games at least now it’s well organised most of the time and I’m sure the garda will have the traffic off limits to non residents
Well I’m very happy for the fact that she was born there, but what’s your point?
Exactly Andrea, one thing that rightly p***ed me off on earlier comments on other sites was ‘ people pissing and pucking up against our walls and gardens’ sorry now but after 17 years I have no intention of being pissed for the concert and I think 99% of others attending will be the same- maybe the residents need to worry about GAA matches rather than concerts
Yes. Croke Park has been there for more than a hundred years, but in fairness to the residents, the number of events taking place there has gone way up since the redevelopment. There would have been very few qualifiers, Saturday matches, league games etc. until fairly recently.
That said, surely 400,000 or so visitors to the area over a week has its benefits?
Probably a bit of a simplistic take on things to think people can just up and move
Ah no. Even the croke park website will show you are wrong on those figures
In all fairness, listening to Garth Brooks five nights in a row would drive anyone demented.
Okay. That is a legitimately fair point! Maybe the GAA et al. will put residents up somewhere for a few nights.
They’re probably just fishing for tickets or compensation. Crowds around Croke Park are normally very well behaved and there’s normally a great Garda presence and great traffic control.
An inconvenience for the locals? Probably but the economic boost of 400,000 people coming into the city is more important.
Residents don’t mind concerts! But 5 is a bit much!!
Residents don’t get compensation and don’t get free tickets!!
They do get free tickets.
There is an address lottery for houses within a catchment area around Croker.
Residents do get free tickets: http://newsletters.visrez.com/t/r-1A49B90A793EE4E02540EF23F30FEDED
And that’s just for the concerts. Not only that but they get an allocation of tickets for EACH concert. There are also draws for every match with numerous tickets to be won (exclusively for local residents). Also, residents get first option to buy all-Ireland Final tickets. Furthermore, the Croke Park Community a Fund gives up to Euro100,000 for local projects (within 1.5 km of the ground): https://www.crokepark.ie/About/Community-/Croke-Park-Community-Fund
I’m thinking of moving there!
You should try living in the Croke Park area for 1 all Ireland day never mind 5 on the trot. The residents should have at the very least being consulted about this.Indeed one of the facilities that the residents use the handball alley which is adjacent to Hill 16 the G.A.A. have being trying to close for years.People should at least think about the local residents before posting some of this nonsense on this topic.
Siobeli, you get tickets – FACT.
The year has 365 days one or 5 days will not kill them. Besides how long croker is there?
I think lottery is the key words there. Very few actual free tickets in reality. Contrary to popular propaganda.
No one on my street has gotten free tickets (not in the immediate area of the stadium) but we still have all of the problems when it comes to parking, traffic, disorderly behaviour…
Is Garth Brooks playing in Croke Park?
Best comment! Thank you for the laugh.
Having lived up until recently on Fitzroy Avenue next to Croke Park for 4 years. I have to say that these residents are full it. The Gardai restrict parking in the areas which is not an issue. the crowds are well managed by the stewards and Gardai and the concerts are over at 11 p.m. they are just moaning usually because they want a few freebies.
forgot to add it usually is easier to get parked on concert/match days as all the commuters who block up the area on a daily basis are not allowed to park.
My nan lived there for years god rest her. Free tickets and passes for entry. Its just a shakedown this
BS there is a modest lottery at times.
Croke Park is suing residents at the moment.
Fitzroy avenue isn’t the worst affected road, it’s not a main entrance road into
Croker, plus not as much noise!!!
I don’t think the residents association are pissed off at the concerts, it’s the number of concerts, 2 at a weekend is good craic, but 5 days and nights!!
Siobeli, now I know you’re spoofing. Fitzroy Avenue ends at Jones’ Road. Croke Park is on a Jones’ Road. You can’t miss Croker from Fitzroy Avenue. My brother lived there and loved the atmosphere, and got free tickets to numerous events, as did three close friends I know who lived on a Foster Terrace and O’Sullivan Avenue (thinks it’s Avenue).
Could not agree more. Just out to jump on the bandwagon and make a quick buck. ( this is coming from a person who has lived there 11 yrs and has listened to helicopters and dealt with parking problems. Get on with it and stopping trying to ruin the one bit of happiness that has come to the country in 7 years)
Probably going to generate millions for the economy and they are trying to have it stopped because itll annoy them for a few days. Grow up. Its your choice to live there.
Every year where I live we’ve a Fair, also/better known as the Borris Fair. It’s a magnificent occasion and yes, the street is closed from one end of the day to the other.
But we, the locals harness it. Make hay while the sun shines so to speak.
Local GAA Club (Mount Leinster Rangers, in the All Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Semi-Final on Saturday v Loughgiel Shamrocks) sell the Lotto Tickets, the local national school fundraise too.
Now if I was a resident in the Croke Park area, I’d be doing the equivalent.
I’d be renting out my rooms by the hour.
I’d be charing a pound to use the toilet.
I’d be setting up a barbecue to feed the masses.
I’d be selling bottles of fizzy pop, water, hang sangwithces etc.
Make hay while the sun shines is my motto folks! Never miss an opportunity!
They do sell drinks etc from their front gardens !
Yea, have fun getting the GAA & other parties involved in the gigs to give up their millions earned before the gigs have even taken place!
Please don’t! Think of the enjoyment people are going to experience and all the employment that these concerts are going to bring! I say thank you to all the residents and hope that all concert patrons show respect !
You live beside Ireland’s largest and most famous stadium. Deal with it or move
What they are really saying is that if ’twas dacent music they wouldn’t mind
Ah here leave it bleeding out !!!
Croke Park has been there for decades with games and big events held there, if residents have a problem with it why live there they get free tickets to games and gigs and if it was a football ground in England there would be a big game every second week and I bet they get nothing, I wouldn’t mind it’s only a few gigs in the summer and few big games in August and September
Residents very rarely get free anything from Croke Park.
Spot on. This is about a lack of any sense of partnership. Doesn’t happen at RDS or Lansdowne but then there are no stockbrokers or barristers living on clonliffe rd
Spot on. This is about a lack of any sense of partnership. Doesn’t happen at RDS or Lansdowne but then there are no stockbrokers or barristers living on clonliffe rd.
Living next to Croke park for 11 years, never got a free ticket!
Look at the links I provided above. If you haven’t got freebies it’s your own fault.
They should be told in no uncertain terms to feck off! We must be the laughing stock of the sporting world that we only have three sides on our two major stadiums.
A few grand each and they’ll go away. That’s all this is – a shakedown
If they don’t like it move, A bunch of moaners with nothing else better to do.
If the biggest issue is parking, then I can’t muster up much sympathy. It’s one of the most centrally serviced routes by public transport, a stones throw from the city centre, dart station, and several bus routes.
The country needs to generate revenue, and giving the local businesses a leg up is one of the best ways to do it.
Imagine if the 5 concerts were all cancelled .
There would be all out war…
Garth Brooks would never ever sing his song “Ireland” again.
Jesus Garth Brooks spends longer in Ireland than our own Bono…….
Garth Brooks will probably pay more tax in Ireland next year than Bono will.
To summarise: Give us tickets we can tout and we’ll be quiet
Would be fun if the gaa published when each member of the residents association bought their house
That would be interesting. Had the same problem a while ago. A family moved into a house beside my local and they came in on a Saturday afternoon. The wife was going nuts that the music was loud after 10 on a Friday night and the husband (I actually felt sorry for the lad) had a face on him like “I just got dragged in here”. I wonder what does be going on in people’s heads that are like that?
Same problem with my local, pub has been there over 200 years and the miserable yoke living next door has complained and they’ve had to quiten things down. Some people are just miseries (not saying that about the croker residents now mind….:P)
Who was there first – the stadium or the home owners (not the buildings)?
First final was played in 1896 , history is on Croke Park website , oh , and Tipp beat Kilkenny in the hurling and also beat Meath in football !!
As a home owner on Clonliffe Road I wish to express that my issue with these concerts is mainly the lack of consultation about the additional dates. The original weekend dates while not ideal, and not my taste in music, were fine. An inconvenience to plan my days around, like any match day. However, as I work during the week and start early I now am going to deprived of the quiet enjoyment of my own home on a work night. I am not interested in tickets. Parking is only an issue when people block me into my drive, which has happened three times last August during match days. I bought the house aware that events would occur but not that Croke Park would have so little consideration for the local residents.
I’d have more sympathy for you if you had actually the balls to put the twitter account in your own name and come on here and complain. What are you afraid of may I ask?
Yes it is lack of consultation – spot on.
Clonliffe Resident,
exactly goes for those of us living other side og Lower Drumcondra Road tp. I find 5 nights excessive. 2 fine possibly 3 but not more.
Aw bless, bothered on a work night- the friggin concert will be over at 11 at the latest, allowing for crowd dispersal that would be around midnight.
My Mother 79 and resides “inside the barriers” if I wished to visit her on these dates I would be turned away (with vehicle)..She has previously been forced to walk Clonliffe road as the Gardai wouldnt let the taxi she was in through..really what do you think….and for the idiots.. She has lived there since her Birth..Garth Books tickets are of no use to her or I for that matter..
Brooks…Irate at the moment…
Walk to your mothers house. The stadium isn’t a surprise to you or your mother.
@Gerry
You could sell the tickets on eBay for her….I’m sure she could use a few quid….
I’d say they’re looking for tickets. It used to be everyone got a ticket to big gigs but then it was changed to a raffle system.
Yeah my 79 year old mother wants to Rock it….
I do feel bad for the older residents. You should try to apply for a residents pass for your car to get down to her, would that help? I’m not sure which way it works for cars on Clonliffe but residents on Charleville Avenue have discs for match and gig days.
Thanks going to Draft a letter tomorrow to the local Station..its just an access problem for me but thete are others with worse Problems.
Your 79 year old mum probably has bad hearing and will be tucked up in bed and won’t know that there’s a concert on
Just make sure all ye Jackeens have all the pidgeon shit cleaned off the streets when us Culchies head up there for the concerts. Upyaboya!!!
Why would they live near a stadium if they have a problem with it.
Because not all of them are there a fay or so…a lot are there since the place was a field.
Are many of them there since the 30′s, 40′s or 50′s? Because the stadium has been around since then. It’s obviously been improved and the capacity increased but it’s still been there.
Yeah my ekderly mother since birth….some people…bahh
Capacity has been decreased! Used to get 100k + in going back to the turn of the century! Improvements have reduced capacity 20k + people!
Right so! I bought a house in the shadow of a stadium (which I could clearly see before I bought and which has been there in some shape or other years before my house was built!) but lots of people go to that stadium at times that inconvenience me, like weekends and evenings. Please somebody give me money or I will leep making noise (if you can hear me above the noise of the crowd!)
If you buy a house beside Croke Park you should know what to expect.
Thankfully someone is calling a halt to this madness – is nobody thinking about the second cut of the silage!! It will be a long winter without the second cut of silage!!
So did you miss he big fcuking stadium that’s been there for over a hundred years when you bought your house.
Only in this godforsaken kip could something that will bring enormous economy benefit to the area be bemoaned by the eejits who live there.
Croke Park should give ye nothing.
Get back to school….it wasnt a big Stadium….it was a field
Gerry, the ‘field’ you refer to has held all-Ireland finals since 1913. Since your 79 year old mother was born this field has managed to facilitate crowds ranging from 40,000+ (an exceptionally low pre-war crowd) to 91,000+ (usually around 70,000). Trying to enhance your argument by saying our national stadium was a field when your Mam was born does about as much for your point as siobeli stating local residents do not get free tickets – they do.
Ah sure the big man will be so rich he could pay them off.
In the village of Slane they used to give (don’t know if they still do) free tickets to the residents every year, as a token gesture for the hassle the concert would cause. People could go or sell the tickets, everyone was happy enough. Surely if the residents here were given x amount of tickets to with as they please, that should be fair enough?
Never get tickets…it’s spin from Croke park! People don’t mind 2 concerts, but 5, not forgetting one direction concerts in may
Wrong again. See the links provided above. You’re either spoofing or clueless. You can get free tickets.
I don’t know the craic but I was just sayin what happened/happens in Slane is a fair deal. If your a resident you should get complimentary tickets.
Buy or rent beside a stadium and the complain about it having events ?
Come on ffs what did you expect !
Old grumps
I love living next to Croke park. The matches never bother me or my neighbours, we enjoy the buzz and the craic. For concerts (max of 2 nights!) we invite friends over for BBQ and enjoy the music
Since I moved here, the number of matches have increased each year, and so has concerts.
The pain is mid-week matches! Can’t take the car out, so public transport for work…I use my car for work so I have to re-arrange work for those days, then I have to leave work earlier than normal so I can pick up kids. I have now changed my summer holidays so I can go to family during the time to save hassle.
For the record-
*residents DO NOT get money.
*very few residents get tickets….nearly 11 years here and never got one!
*houses were here before Croke park…the majority of houses around croker were built when it was a running track! A neighbour who has lived here for 70 years recalls only 5 or 6 matches with a couple of thousand people attending!
Your neighbour is wrong – very wrong. The lowest attendance for a final in the last 70 years was 61,000+ (excluding 1947 when it was held in New York). So that’s 69 games, the majority being attended by well over 70,000, in the last 70 years. This doesn’t include semi-finals or pre-final games involving Dublin.
FN muppets why did they buy a house near a stadium. I lived half way between thomond park and the Gaelic grounds. Couldn’t hear myself think when a match or concert was played. But it was my choice to buy in the area, and wasn’t up to me to object to other peoples enjoyment
Siobel
Well said fully agree
Since Landsdowne was reopened how many games have been in croke park on a midweek. Im afraid reading through all your comments you are coming across as a spoofer
Did you not notice the huge stadium when you moved in 11 years ago?
I can understand the inconvenience caused but in the long run these events are going to bring millions of well needed euros to the local economy. Id take that over couple of hundred people who knowingly moved in next to a stadium being annoyed for a few days.
I live on clonliffe road, great craic always when matches/gigs are on. It’s just a matter of timing regarding your car. As other posters have said, the most annoying part is not the noise from the gig, it’s the bloody Garda helicopter that hovers over the house after the gig, wakes up my 3&4 year old sometimes and utterly unnecessary.
All in all though is a great place to live and always good fun with 80,000 cheery souls passing by my front gate!
I’m sure they are just after a few more bob, couple o grand each to drop their objections which may or may not be real
They are real.. see you tomorrow…lol
Folks, its a myth that residents get free tickets from croker. Living here 6 years and only ticket I got in that time was a parking ticket.
Denis, I have several friends who regularly get them. Hell, one of them gets my all-Ireland ticket for me if I don’t bother getting it myself!
residents do not automatically get free tickets , you are entered into a raffle
From the link above “When tickets are made available, they will be distributed by way of a draw amongst those who have registered”.
I have a suggestion. Aoife why don’t you attend the meeting as my guest and see the way croke park treats it’s community.
You can report back and let the people decide from your article what they think???
Yes do Aoife…..
it could be a homophobic reaction to garth
Why move in beside a stadium if your going to complain about stuff happening there?
Ah nonsense. It’s great atmosphere. It’s hardly a shock that they put on big events in a stadium. If you don’t like it, move.
What is this country coming to? We should be supporting events which are generating revenue and providing good entertainment.. There is enough bad news in this country, why are injunctions and legal options even considered let alone tolerated for an event that is seemingly bringing 10% of the population together for some concerts during the summer! Living in the sunny south east on the coast.. We have to tolerate our beaches being overcome, littered and polluted for 6 months of the year! Actually restrictions etc should be put in place! My god get over it.. Gimme 5 nights of free listening to Garth Brooks anytime! #canweforoncenotwhinge
This isn’t twitter
I think what is a far more serious issue here are Irish musical tastes. Seriously a washed up country and western singer sells out five nights in Croke Park, jesus if John Lennon came back down from above and resurrected the Beatles, they wouldn’t manage to sell out five nights in Croker, very worrying indeed.
Absolutely. I mean, when did this loser last have a hit. Huh. Last album entered the charts at no.1.
Yes, but when?
November 2013.
Oh.. OK then.
Not that I really care David as thankfully I have proper tastes in music, but Garth Brooks last album that got to No. 1 in America was basically a greatest hits album titled “Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences,” and contained six CDs and two DVDs, so I can only imagine what it cost here.
Proper taste in music. Ah yes. As it happens it wasn’t a greatest hits album. It was an album of covers of his favorite music growing up. It was essentially a produced album of his Las Vegas show (which was fantastic and did huge business).It cost $25 in the U.S. Still and all, facts eh. Washed up has been.
I really detest musical snobs like you. Who are you to say your taste is better than someone else’s? Music is subjective and personal to the listener. Take your elitism and shove it.
Is that the same john Lennon who used to beat his wife , then go out and sing about love and peace to everybody ?
I with them we should have a referendum to ban Gareth Brooke’s gigs
Huge sympathies with the residents, I lived beside croker in 1997 & had to put up with this absolute sh1te music & unbearable amounts of fat double denim wearing old people for a week. Couldn’t bare it again!
A now…..thats a bit harsh……double denim….culchie basher
i use to live near crowke park….events like this were welcome because they bothered to clean up the rubbish on the street.
The only time the Residents don’t complain is when Dublin are in the All-Ireland final.
MONEY GREEDY GRABBING GOBS.
Pure dung as the spud gobblers would say
Free tickets for hill 16 for all dublin games for the next year for locals.
I smell compo…
Got 4 tickets this morning – this could interfere with my plans
Thought everyone was broke?
Apparently not .. €26,000,000 spent on Garth Brooks tickets in a matter if minutes .. Makes you wonder doesn’t it! €26 MILLION!! ON GARTH BROOKS!!
Now where’s my cowboy hat and guitar, I need to start practicing …
Yes try to look on the positives, we country folk have to go back to real life after the gigs and matches….you dubs stay in cartoonland
Residents association looking for free tickets again. I was wondering why we hadn’t heard from them and then up they pop yesterday. I understand Croke Park can disrupt the surrounding areas but wasn’t it there when they moved in?
a loy smaller stadium then with no concerts
Yeah the should leave the stadium empty…
these are UK stats but have a quick look.
Direct spend by music tourists – buying tickets, paying for transport and accommodation – was worth £1.3 billion
Further indirect music tourism spend – additional spending along the supply chain generated by music tourists – adds a further £914m, making a total spend of £2.2bn
The average live music audience is comprised of 41% music tourists
Music tourists from overseas spend, on average, £910 while attending festivals and £602 while attending concerts (average tourist spend is £600)
Domestic music tourists spend, on average, £396 while attending festivals and £87 while attending concerts
I am a resident living inside the Croke Park cordon
as such it`s almost impossible to get to one`s home by car or taxi on days croke park is open except by passes with people walking on roads,pissing in gardens and lanes, litter and noise and now 3 one direction concerts and garth brooks concerts in one year where there is only permission for 3 concerts in total in any year
no wonder alot of people near me richard hughesare dreading July,the GAA only pays lip service to the area and its residentd
Why only complain now? Garth brooks has brought the GAA out of debt and will bring much more money to ur local shops hotels b&bs hostels restraints and more! Ye really are ungreatful! I don’t see ye taking one out when one direction was announced or the all Ireland’s or and match for that matter!! No cos ye are all interested in them and not Garth brooks! If ya ask me ye just need a life it’s not like Croke park was just built yesterday! Ireland has made a lot if money from what will be going on in croker this year!
My parents have lived beside Croke Park for nearly 30 years. They have applied to be in the lottery for tickets for years. On ONE occasion they got tickets for a gig. That was it. ONE TIME only in 30 years. And access to their own house us a nightmare during gigs and matches. The cordon around Croke Park is supposed to be there to help residents and control the crowds. There have been times when I can’t get through to pick my parents up to take them out and many times when they can’t get back home (despite events being long over).
Tough!! They might consider we’re they buy a house in future.
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