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ROCK BAND AC/DC are taking to the stage in Croke Park this evening, their first Irish show in nine years.
Dublin is the last stop of the European leg of the band’s Power Up tour, which is named after their latest album.
If you’re heading to the gig today, here’s everything you need to know.
AC/DC formed in 1973, so its members have changed over the years. The line-up on this tour is: Brian Johnson (lead vocals), Angus Young (lead guitar, backing vocals), Stevie Young (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Chris Chaney (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Matt Laug (drums).
Doors open at 5pm and the support act is expected to take the stage around 7pm, with AC/DC usually following around 8.30pm.
The Pretty Reckless, a rock band from New York City. The lead vocalist is Taylor Momsen (who, if you don’t know from her music career, you may recognise from playing Jenny Humphrey in Gossip Girl).
There’s a fair number of Dublin Bus routes that go to or near Croke Park and Drumcondra: 1, 6, 7, 7a, 11, 13, 15, 16 27, 27a, 27b, 33, 40, 40b, 40d, 40e, 41b, 41c, 41d, 42, 43, 44, 53a, 122, 123, and 130.
Dublin Bus usually operates some diversions on concert and match days. The exact operating times of the diversions for this concert should be confirmed today.
The route diversion plan involves the 1, 11, 13, 16, 33, 41/a/b/c, and 44.
Outbound diversion plan: Buses take the normal route to Dorset Street then divert via Whitworth Road to Prospect Road, Prospect Way, Botanic Road, Mobhi Road. The 11 and 13 resume their normal route. Buses turn at Ballymun Road Triangle to Griffith Avenue to Swords Road and back onto the normal route.
Inbound diversion plan: Normal route to Swords Road. 1, 16, 33, 41/a/b/c then divert to Griffith Avenue, Mobhi Road (where 11 and 13 divert), Botanic Road, Whitworth Road to Dorset Street and then return to the normal route.
Other transport options in the city are the Green and Red Luas lines. Get the Red Line to Connolly or the Green line to Parnell or Marlborough and it’s around a 20-25 minute walk from any of those stops to Croke Park.
The closest DART stations are Connolly and Clontarf (though Clontarf could take about 25-30 minutes to walk from to Croke Park). If you’re coming from further field, the closest railway station is Drumcondra, which is only a few minutes from the stadium.
The Dublinbikes.ie share scheme has stations not too far from Croke Park. The closest one is on the North Circular Road.
When you arrive near Croke Park, follow the route that matches the colour listed on your ticket.
The show’s promoter MCD has advised concert-goers not to bring large bags or backpacks as they may be delayed or refused entry. There are no storage facilities at the site.
Bags smaller than A4 size should be okay but bag larger than A4, as well as glass or cans, umbrellas, alcohol, garden furniture, selfie sticks, flares, professional cameras and audio recording equipment will not be permitted, nor will banners, flags or posters larger than A3 that could impede other attendees’ view.
Regarding drink bottles, MCD says: “No glass, metal or hard plastic bottles will be permitted. No bottles of any kind are permitted on the pitch. Standing ticketholders should not carry any sort of reusable bottles. Seated ticketholders may carry resealable soft collapsible water skin/bottles.”
Met Éireann’s forecast says it’ll be a cloudy day with temperature highs of 16 to 19 degrees, followed by an evening with sunny spells but some isolated showers.
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so nice to see this becoming important for people. The food industry is rampant with additives, conservatives, all sorts of short-cuts to make production bigger and cheaper. I mean, why the hell is there milk in ham? Can they not just boil a lump of pork, slice it and package it?
Packaging is another issue that seems to me to be out of control…sooo much plastic. But that’s for another day.
Well said Lorcán! I care deeply whats in my food and where it comes from. Be great to see every town with its own thriving food market encouraging farmers and landowners in the surrounding lands to produce real healthy food. So many pluses.. better food for all, more local employment, stronger community, healthier soil and land too. Yes Permaculture is the future and there really is no alternative.. regenerates land, soil, forests, wildlife, cleaner rivers, far healthier food, community empowerment and independence and so much more. Organic growing is just the start.. do your own research into Permaculture and learn how it solves most of our problems.
I too have an issue with packaging. However like it or hate it, plastic packaging is the material that our society has chosen and in the end there’s nothing inherently wrong with plastic, just our management of it. Plastic had many advantages and it dramatically reduces food spoilage, which is good for the environment. Plastic can be made from plants: it doesn’t have to be made from fossil fuels. It can be carbon neutral, biodegradable and sustainable.
Thought this was an interesting read. Makes me want to do something with the little plot outside my house. But for now I’m going to take a walk down the road with my rubber gloves and pick some delicious nettles.
Nettle Beer Anyone . . .http://www.wildabout.ie/nettles.html
The title made me interested in the article. Sadly the article just turned out to be a really long ad. :-/
Sorry you thought that Logan, and I totally get how beaten down we get by media manipulation. This was an interview I did about our food and how we grow it. We are a very small Artisan Food Producer, we are not a big multinational. We have a 5 acre smallholding where we grow using permaculture techniques, We don’t use any chemicals on our land or in our kitchen.. We sell at farmers markets and now in Supervalu through the Food Academy, an initiative by Bord Bia, the Enterprise Board and Musgraves, aimed to bring small producers like ourselves into the mainstream, giving us the opportunity to grow our business and for us to spread an ethical and environmental ethos. What it has meant for us, is the bigger platform had given us the means to service a debt in moving up a notch, employing someone and taking our business to the next stage. This is not an advert by a large multinational. This is an interview with a genuine small producer. Good Food Ireland Producer of the Year. All Ireland Farmers Market Champions and Guild of Irish Food Writers Award 2015.
No, it’s an advert by a large supermarket chain, piggybacking on your business. You are the product here.
I wish you well, which may surprise you, and I’d try your product too, because I’m lfortunate enough to be able to occasionally buy food because I feel like, rather than for reasons of nutrition or hunger – unlike a great number of people. But I’d do so a second time not because it’s organic, or because of the permaculture, but if it tasted nice.
The other stuff is marketing for an affluent picky market, who want to feel virtuous and superior about what they eat, rather than, you know, full. The same ones who are now filling the coffers of those making exorbitantly expensive (though not so bad in Lidl) gluten free food for people who are not coeliacs and have a ‘food intolerance’ that does not really exist.
Organic/permaculture/chutney is never ever feed large populations and is a distraction at that level. It is of no interest to those feeding people on a tight budget, but serves to make them feel guilty that they are not doing as well as they should.
Organic is irrelevant when it comes to nutrition. If you are doing it for principle and can afford to, fine. But if you can’t afford it don’t feel the least bit guilty or deprived.
Also, this always makes me laugh like a drain
‘.. we really should make quality, high-end food that we can sell to the rest of the world with pride.’
So, we should not import food – cos ‘the environment’, health etc – and we should eat and buy only Irish food preferably locally grown. But meanwhile, we should export away like good things – to hell with the environment – and people in other countries should definitely not eat and buy locally, they should eat our better food.
Hilarious.
This article has cheered me up no end.
‘You could dine out for years on ‘what is the difference between chutney and relish’’
I can honestly say I’ve been on the planet for over 5 decades and never been in the least bothered by this conundrum. If it came up when I was dining out, I’d question my choice of company.
Katie I would agree with you there but from a quick google search (your fault for peeking my curiosity and thus lowering my integrity) from what I can see basically ingredients (same can be in both) and cooking time (which can vary in both) and original origin of the names the product of which now probably has no resemblance to what it was after being messed around with all these years.
Mostly now I think the trems Relish would be used by Americans and Chutney by the English, also Relish would sound more “posh” over the “workingman’s” Chutney and both are basically the same with the ability to make or break a sandwich or burger.
Must bring this up at my next dinner party methinks……. Hmmm maybe not
Love Nettles, many of our native hedgerow foods have incredible medicinal properties . . . and they’re FREE !
Great article. Permaculture and Organic food is the right direction for our little country as we produce enough to feed everyone without Importing (or exporting) our food! There’s more and more courses cropping up all over the country from day courses to full on 2 year degrees. Accessibility is key!
Avoiding Trans Fats (man made) can reverse Diabetes Type 2. US average intake is 2.2 Kgs per annum …. daft!
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/fda-trans-fat-ban-118003.html
Surely this is an ad. Is it a paid for advertisement, if so surely that should be written somewhere?
It’s brought to you by SuperValu and there’s a #Sponcered.
Just saw the “Sponsered” on the pic attached to the article on the home page but there is nothing (that I can see) in the article and I must be missing the “Brought to you by Supervalu” because I can’t locate that.
A wonderful example of ‘ad blindness’ Tricia – I love it. Took me a minute too, but there is a little thing at the top beside the titles, and a big red thing at the bottom of the article. When you see them, they are obvious, but like you I at first just automatically filtered them out as ads.
Message to Journal advertisers: Your banner ads are pretty much invisible, even the big red ones. On the other hand, a lot of people don’t notice articles are sponsored. Just bear the comments in mind when creating your copy…
Ha. I only just now noticed the MASSIVE banner ad at the top of the page. So that’s 3 ads, and the one I noticed last is the biggest.
This just gets funnier and funnier.
There was a pattern of red/green thumbs here that was quite normal, all comments were green and red to a natural degree..
Then all of a sudden it changed – like, completely, within about 5 minutes. Any comments not in abject praise of the article are now red-thumbed to death, old and new (banal) favourable comments are green thumbed to the heights.
The PR company are on the ball anyway and earning their crust, have to give them that. Expect this comment won’t even last long.
I imagine the people who click on and read this article would mainly be the people who have an interest in organics/ permaculture and whatnot so they would obviously red thumb comments they don’t agree with. I wouldn’t get too paranoid over the thumbs
Not paranoid at all, amused.
Usually get mine in tesco or lidl
I find Aldi occasionally good too, though I do rate Lidl the best of the three.
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