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THIS MORNING, THOUSANDS of U2 fans were left devastated as Irish dates for their upcoming tour sold out within minutes.
Tickets went on sale at 9am this morning for U2′s Experience and Innocence Tour which comes to Dublin’s 3Arena on three dates and Belfast’s SSE Arena for one date in November.
It’s understood that the tickets were sold out shortly after 9am this morning.
Almost immediately after tickets for all European dates of the tour went on sale on 9am, hundreds of tickets for dates in Germany, Portugal, France and the UK began appearing on Ticketmaster’s sister website Seatwave for up to €400.
As of shortly before 11am this morning, there were no tickets for any of the Irish dates available on Seatwave. However, some disappointed fans on social media this morning claimed that tickets were appearing on the site shortly after 9am.
https://twitter.com/ryan_boyle45/status/959356580436348928
Seatwave bills itself as a Ticketmaster company which allows fans who missed out on sold-out gigs to purchase official tickets. It allows fans to sell their tickets, even within minutes of purchase.
The company charges a 10% “success fee” on sales and allows people to set their own selling price. That means that the higher the price for “secondary market” tickets, the more money Seatwave stands to make.
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Fine Gael TD Noel Rock said that the legislation that has been introduced to tackle this kind of ticket reselling hasn’t moved fast enough and has called on the government to enact the legislation immediately.
“Today’s outrageous cornering of the market by touts whose only goal is to gouge hard-working fans is an absolute disgrace and shows clearly the problem we have here,” Rock said.
“This is now happening on a weekly basis with concerts big and small, as well as larger sporting events,” he said.
“This situation cannot continue. The ticketing industry cannot be relied upon to regulate itself.”
The extent of the problem is so great that artists like Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift took action to make sure tickets to their gigs weren’t being bought for individuals to make a profit.
In July, Sheeran announced that he would recall 10,000 tickets that were up for sale on an unofficial ticketing site for inflated prices, and put them back up for sale on his own website for the original sale price.
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It takes a special kind of cowardly scu m to leave a toddler for dead. Delighted he’s doing ok now.
@Football in the Groin: Absolutely. The lowest of the low.
Great news.
Hopefully one of the drivers friends/mates will inform the garda on who it is, they should understand what this person did…Need to take people like this off the road ….spineless
Hope the child makes a full and speedy recovery, as for the driver…. I genuinely hope for and wish the worst of everything on him/her.
@tommytukamomo: I hope the boy recover, and I would not like if that was my son having to live with this for the rest of his life,and I wouldn’t want a son like him.
Brilliant news,poor little lad.
Delighted
I can feel the relief coming out through the screen… phew
That’s the best news that I have heard all day and I was having a bad ole day now it has just brightened up. I hope who ever was driving that car set her you panicked or what state you were in, do the honourable thing and hand yourself Into your local authorities so that you can try and ask for forgiveness from the parents which I doubt you will get the longer you leave it the worse it will be for you.
If you are a human being at all you will do the right thing. I am so happy this little boy is ok because the exact same thing happened to me a hit and run left me with a broken leg crushed hand that I can barly write with and it was only by sheer luck that he was caught it was 13 months later. He received 5 years in jail.
I got a nice sum but I’d give it back in the morning to be able to have 100% mobility. Ah well I’m thrilled this little warrior is ok.
That’s one tough, brave kid
Great news what a s#um bag hope they find him
@Jodi: Have a word with yourself, there is no justification for hitting a toddler or anyone for that matter and leaving the scene.
Great news alas suspended sentence on the way. If he did 3 years I’d be surprised.
@Windom Earle: it’s a teenager so I would imagine free legal aid, a hard up bringing sob story and an out of touch judge will lead to him somehow being the victim
@niamh ryan: Niamh and Windom please do enlighten us as to what course of action you would take? Or do you both just do the finger pointing?
So relieved to hear this, I have a 3 yr old myself and I have been thinking about the poor wee lad and his family since I heard the news. There are no words to describe the s#um that hit him and left him for dead. May they never know a minute’s peace.
Delighted! Speedy recovery and best wishes.
Best wishes to the young man and his family
Sure it’s their culture!
Glad hes doing well. A tough little boy. A 17yr old Male has been arrested.
Does anyone read the actual story reported. The suspect is in custody . Best wishes to the little fella.
@Terry Cahill: the story was only updated 45 mins ago with this information, people are responding to the earlier version if the story which said the little lad was in a stable condition
Great news recovery speed and hope Gardai catch Arrest driver coward
I await with eager anticipation to read the driver’s résumé, and other relevant facts.
Great news. I hope they will catch that ass#ole
Great news to hear the little boy is on the mend, hope the law deals severely with the culprits
Driver should not have left the accident but accident should never have happened.
@Dino Manning: I’m guessing you were there at the scene to be so sure about what should and shouldn’t have happened Dino?
He’s in a great place in temple st. Let’s hope he makes a full recovery.
Fantastic well done Gardai Arrest Driver Coward and toddler recovery speed
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