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THE BROWN THOMAS department store has cancelled today’s release of runners designed by rapper Kanye West.
A large crowd had queued from the early hours of this morning in order to buy a pair of the new Adidas Yeezy Boost 350s runners.
The store confirmed on Twitter this morning that the shoes will not go on general release today, citing health and safety concerns.
The store said it will be updating its social media channels with details of a raffle to purchase the runners.
One customer, Sergiu Lucaci said on Twitter that some people had been outside the store since midnight last night.
“People started running to the door and a big crowd was formed at the door. After all he commotion, a BT representative came out and ordered the crowd to form a queue,” he said. He said this did not happen.
In the UK yesterday, thousands of customers queued to get their hands on the designer runners. BBC reports that within minutes of their release, the shoes were being resold for double the price online.
Security guards were brought in to manage crowds at a number of stores.
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Was in town at 9 this morning and even at that stage the were 2 Garda vans in there trying to disperse the crowd. All for a pair of runners? Thankfully BT’s has large windows so those people can take a long, hard look at themselves. Goons.
@Paddy Kennedy: boom times must be back!! There’s something seriously wrong if people are queuing for effin runners
@Paddy Kennedy: Overpriced. Mundane. And will probably fall apart after 6 months. Kenya didnt design them, he sat in an oxygen tent for 67 seconds and flipped through a catologue, picking something quickly, getting his hard earned millions and hopping back on his private jet to cobble together and endorse more “music”.
@Finn Faulkner: no wonder he has a private jet with this number of feicin eejits buying sneakers he endorsed.
@Paddy Kennedy: all for runners made in a sweat shop
@Paddy Kennedy: Legend!
Have people gone mad? Queing for hours to buy a pair of runners?
@Peter Buchanan: Some people never learn, lessons from the last downturn have not been learned and its going to happen all over again, the housing bubble, rents out of control, people spending like drunken sailors, public sector greedfest……it all happened the last time. I pray that somehow the next meltdown won’t be as bad but we are now neck deep in private and public debt, it was just public last time……car crash time.
@Peter Hughes: Correct, and I think it’s going to happen a lot sooner than most people realise. Keep an eye on Deutsche Bank.
@Peter Hughes: Peter your a billion percent right it’s going to happen all over again. I lost a great job in the last burst bubble. I certainly won’t be loosing anything this time round. I am off to start a new life in Canada. I hate what Ireland has become. Gone are the days when you could talk to people.
@Honey Badger: Stay prudent.. https://www.macleans.ca/economy/realestateeconomy/this-is-how-canadas-housing-correction-begins/
@Peter Hughes: Trust me, the people who can afford to pay 1,300eu for a pair of runners were never affected by the crash, places like Brown Thomas never truly suffered much during the downturn because people who can afford things like 20K LV bags or 300 euro for a tub of face cream smaller than a travel-sized bottle of shampoo were always going to be able to afford them…they cater to a demographic so rich that the economic woes of us mere mortals just don’t compute…
Desperate looking yolks
@Ger Buckley: They’re the ugliest looking things!
Should go shopping for a life first
@Yurty Tim: Ah Ross O’C K has made an appearance!
Hear the Celtic Tiger roar!!!!
@David Harkin: had the galway tent been unpacked yet?
@Seamus Mac: *has
What’s the health and safety concern? You look like a knob wearing them?
@jamesdecay: it wasn’t for the runners themselves but for the crowd…before someone sues them for their toe being stepped on…go figure!
@Arya: ah Jaysus! Christmas and New Year sales could be tricky so.
@jamesdecay: the smell, if they all wore them and took them off at the same time. They’d close beaches in Wales.
Please, Journal, close the comments for this article before someone gets hurt.
350 for runners…..if I won the lotto I would not pay that. People can be mad. Any is it physiological health and safety?
“A BT representative came out and ordered the crowd to form a queue”. The yobos take no notice of Gardai or judges, so a BT representative has no chance.
Aw Jesus, we’re nothing more than an American colony.
I remember when we use to queue for tickets to see some musical genius / inspiration, nowadays they’re queuing for a phoney musicians horrid runners. Ham heads.
@David Linehan: wouldn’t call him a phoney musician. Apart from U2 I can’t think of artist that crossed so many genres and bossed them all.
@Darren Bates: I’m curious… how many genres did he cross and boss?
@Darren Bates: just going to leave this here… https://youtu.be/nwN6dPNXklg
@Darren Bates: just wow
@Darren Bates: David Linehan was talking about musical geniuses e.g. Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, U2 and Queen to name but a few. Their music is still played today as much as it was when they 1st started out. Do you really think Kanye’s music will be remembered in 30/40 years???
@Joe Phillips: any of the songs he’s collaborated in were only remotely good because of the actual musicians that featured. He’s a hack, wasn’t long ago he was on twitter asking people for money
If people behave like this over runners, imagine the chaos if the day comes when there isn’t enough food or water for all
Don’t be fooled. People are buying them to resell online at a higher price, hence the queues.
I will just wait for the lookalikes in pennys for €13. :-)
@stephen cassidy: typical!
It wasn’t so Yeezy to get them after all!
Haven’t even heard of these. Am I not with it anymore? Not it is the kids who are wrong.
@thephantomshit: I used to be with it, but then they changed what “it” was, now what I’m with isn’t it and what’s it seems weird and scary to me…
I would mind but they’re manky looking yokes!
Go holiday in Vietnam. They sell great quality copies of these shoes for around €15!
Who in their right mind would pay 350 for them. More bloody money than sense.
@Joe Kelly: I wonder how much the chinese workers get to make a pair?
Staying out all night to buy a pair of trainers that make you look like a homeless vagrant.
Ohhh the irony
BT realising the amount of skangers that would be in the shop all at once, decoded to cite H&S as the reason
Designed?
They look like a pair of elf shoes stuck on to the rubber skirt of a hovercraft.
@Mill Lane: brilliant!
Any product endorsed by the pea brain is bound to be garbage.
Queuing all night for a pair of runners only for the release to be cancelled? Lol..suckers!
That is just so brown Thomas can make the news. They could have released them by managing the people queueing and only letting them in in small group a total PR stunt!
@Siobhan Mulcahy: I don’t think BT need the pr, particularly of pictures of the skanger section of society hanging out at their front door.
Lads, they don’t look like your normal BT shoppers…
Panic
There’s your first world problems right there!! How lucky we really are compared to other countries..
BT realising the amount of skangers that would be in the shop all at once, decoded to cite H&S as the reason
Absolute sheep.
Hope there better than they look . I’ve seen better looking ones in Primark for £10
The boom is back baby!!
As me dear old gran would say…queuing for a 350 pounds pair of gutties…they’re are not study…
This may be perceived as toxic4.5/10
What is wrong with people? Queuing early for this??
may cause brain injury…oh hang on they’re already brain dead if they’re queueing since midnight for them anyway, panic over
Rotten looking things, the youth of today dress like clones awful
BT realising the amount of skangers that would be in the shop all at once, decoded to cite H&S as the reason
Pack of eejits
Tools
How sad
They’re far too fly for peoples good….
Sheep.
I’m assuming the health and safety concerns were that those queing have no brains
So, what are the health and safety concerns?
@John Mulligan: too many twits in the sane space at the same time could cause injuries
I didn’t think the jobs in Ireland paid that well,350 for runners I wouldn’t pay that if I won the lotto.idiots.
This is the most pathetic thing I’ve seen this morning.
Bunch of sheep queuing for runners
Jaysus, they look like A pair of runners that Homer Simpson designed. People are stoopid.
I didn’t have to queue for ‘Sizzlers’ in Pennies circa 1985…..
Melters cants bate a pair of lonsdales
Idiots lining the pockets of another idiot.
A fool and his money…….
Are people so dumb to not realise that many people queuing up for them are resellers? You may or may not know, but for 300 Euro you are buying a pair of shoes that 24 hours~ later have tripled in value.
2 was: Path Etic. A Pint of extreme de-programing please.
Lux-lyfe have them available on their instagram account . No need for a publicity q
Truly sad.
People should be allowed to spend their money on what they want. That kind of money is spent every day in BT. Each to their own.
Bunch of arseholes lol
These runners are made in China by workers earning €220 a month. Well done Adidas. Greed has the world ruined. And these fools queing are pathetic.
Them yeezys and all the other yezzy footwear look like there st Bernard product ( dunnes stores ) 5 euro runners. GENUINELY . BECAUSE HES ON THE TV AND ALL THE KARDASHIONS ARE WEARING THEM ( PUBLICITY STUNT FOR SALES ) HOW ON EARTH CAN HE PUT A $500-$650 PRICE TAG ON THESE ATROCIOUS LOOKING FOOTWEAR.
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