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THE ONGOING GARTH Brooks concert drama rumbles on, with Dublin Chamber of Commerce adding its voice to the crowd who want a solution found quickly.
Gina Quinn, chief executive of the chamber, said that they understand there is a burden on the residents around the venue, but “clearly we have a planning system that hasn’t worked well for these concerts to be cancelled at such a late stage”.
She said on Morning Ireland this morning that cancelling the concerts two weeks before they are due to go ahead “is really not acceptable”.
“This has a major impact on Ireland’s reputation,” said Quinn, adding that “this will be very, very bad for Ireland in the future”
The concerts have not been officially cancelled, but a decision is still to be made about whether three will go ahead – the three that there is permission for – or if they will all be cancelled.
Travelling from abroad
Quinn noted that thousands of people attending the concerts are coming from outside Dublin, and even Ireland, and have booked travel and accommodation already.
She said that a significant proportion of ticketholders “are left with no options”.
Asked about Brooks’ statement that he will play all five concerts or none, Quinn said:
I think that is a real shame. We would rather see three concerts go ahead than no concerts
She added that ideally there would be a root and branch review of the planning process, and the legislation “would be completely overhauled to ensure that these decisions are made in really good time before there are major investments made, and that everyone, including the local residents, are given due regard in this process”.
Quinn said her sense is that moving location for the concerts is not feasible “because of the sheer volume and intensity of the investment that’s made in the Croke Park venue to make the concerts happen”.
The best option seems to be to give the residents a break, to defer the last two concerts to Wednesday and Thursday.
She added that she hoped that some residents do not go to court to block all concerts going ahead.
I hope we can find a solution. There has to be compromise on everybody’s side
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For legal reasons the following may or may not have happened :) I was once in a Nissan bluebird where an entire under 16 football team was being brought to a match because the bus never turned up. 7 in the back seat sitting on knees, 3 on the front passenger seat and 5 in the boot, two lying down tight to the back seat and 3 sitting across the boot opening, boot was left open. We got there and we won :)
@Pat Maher: Love it Pat. Brilliant!!!
‘Maybe they were making a trunk call’ Ouuu! A real zinger than one! The lads down the station must have been falling around the place laughing.
@Nicky O’Donnell: Now they want to be comedians on top of everything !!
Surely should have been boot-y call
@Nicky O’Donnell: and then it went on social meeja, it was class
@Nicky O’Donnell: I bet your great fun in work
I had eight in a starlet once
@P.J. Nolan: Your mother must be so proud !
@Shane Freeney:
Ha ha, maybe I could have worded that better….
When I was in school our PE teacher brought the full U’12 football team to an away match in his Fiat Ritmo.
@Nick Allen:
Many a underage team went through that particular ritual.
Seriously? They posted that on Twitter?!
Keystone cops.
@Paul Watchorn: Why? Real police only tweet about murders?
Its the Garda TRAFFIC twitter account
Would expect nothing less from a yaris driver, across the board yaris drivers are the worst drivers on the road.
@Let free speech live: Was this your postgraduate thesis?
@Let free speech live: I’d like a journal fact check on this, please
@Let free speech live: up the yaris!
@Let free speech live: Thank god someone else thinks that, I thought I was the only one. What is it about them?!
@Let free speech live: Not true.
It’s the Nissan Micra drivers that hold that accolade.
@Dave Sherman: same class of driver but more yaris drivers than micra drivers around.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: It was actually and it was very well received.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: I would welcome it, after 10 years on the road as a hgv driver believe me they are consistently the worst. If a yaris driver indicates left there is a strong chance they will turn right.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Ok so that was the funniest thing I’ve read in a while lol thank you !! Needed a giggle today !!!
@Dave Sherman: They’re one and the same, the Micra drivers are moving on to the Yaris now.
They found a right spare in the boot didn’t They!
Obviously someone was dropping their mother in law home.
Reminds me of my childhood back of my das opel rekord with all my cousin and sometimes my gran n aunt on holidays to Wexford. Good times so glad I have dose memory’s something about those days. I think the 2000s is truly the first time things are different.
This droll gombeen in the garda needs to be hauled in for his droll twitter remarks, the Garda line ‘we don’t comment on individual cases’ never applies to him. Who is this droll troll civil servant?
@Tom Phelan: He could easily be your brother or father Tom ‘the bore’ Phelan!
@Joe Conlon: there’s no way any member of my family could be that deadbeat
@Tom Phelan: haha, fair enough
Why was he hidden? Was he ugly??
@WJH: How do you know it was a “he”?
@Tricia Golden: Does it really matter??? Seriously???
Six of us in a J.C.B. Five of us squeezed round the driver. All was fine until we went over a bump and someone fell on the back acter (spelling?) control.. And 10 in a Volkswagon Variant, an estate car from the 1970s also known as a “deviant.” Two in front, four in back seat, one on the floor (it was rear engined so no transmission tunnel,) and three in the estate part.
Who’s there ??
Dad?
Why is the photo reversed ?
The car is pulled in on the left on the way out of Limerick on the ‘dark road’, sorry Dock road.
No one – they’re never there when you need them !
Knock Knock !
A Garda with a sense of humor ‘ trunk call ‘ . Who would have thought ?
@Mary Mc Carthy: They often crack jokes on Twitter, what of it? Isn’t it an odder thing to do, putting a passenger in the boot?
Knock Knock !
Ok waiting fir the mini driver. Any minute now…
Turns out
It was 15
AND they were women
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