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Dublin Nimbys want Brooks concerts stopped
TheTruth1983
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-26187651
Jesus wept.
Strange they don't feel that way about GAA games.
People who live near a Dublin stadium that is due to host five Garth Brooks concerts are considering legal action against the organisers.
All five of the American country star's Irish concerts sold out within hours.
About 400,000 people are due to attend the shows at Croke Park stadium on 25-29 July. The stadium is owned by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).
The residents said the area is "locked down" during concerts. The GAA said it would not comment while talks continue.
Jesus wept.
Strange they don't feel that way about GAA games.
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Ear plugs or noise cancelling headphones and your own music
If the venue is complying with their licence and conditions, i'm not sure what legal grounds they have to challenge.
I would look into the eu human rights legislations if I were them, there has to be laws against this type of thing surely ?
The stadium owners have an agreement for 3 concerts a year , now its 5 for Garth as well as One Direction. The place will be chaos for 7 nights due to setup/ take down/ soundchecks, no parking spots left out side our houses, streets full of rubbish and drunk people around all day until late in the evening, traffic backed up out of the city so it takes ages to get home from work. Add in people peeing outside your house , leaving empty cans and food containers on your window sill and it becomes a grim few days not just a noisy few days.
One or two I could deal with but not five
One must ask themselves, however, if Oasis reformed and played 5 nights in Croker, would the residents mind so much?
Has the stadium always been used for music, or is that a recent change of use? Also, is it later in the evening?
Although I would have expected any changes to have needed planning approval.
It seems that the locals are claiming that organisers are ignoring an agreement to limit concerts to 3 per year. If that is true, then I think they have a case. It's one thing moving next to a sports ground (albeit a pretty big one) and then moaning about it being a sports ground, but its a completely different thing if that sports ground also becomes a concert venue.
If there had been a previous agreement for three nights and that has now changed, then I sypathise with the residents and think they have good reason to complain.
They complained about one night of U2 though as well.
Even just one night of St Bono at 80 kW is one night too many.
well, as someone who likes alt country, and thinks the carter family, hank and kitty are some of the most important 20th century music acts, he's crap
Hah, this brings back memories of me as an 11 year old leaving a boyzone concert, throat hoarse from screaming `I love you Stephen`
http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0703/628237-garth-brooks/
The whole set-up has obviously been a complete shambles and this is the unfortunate result of some very bad organisation. The GAA and Aiken Promotions were pushing their luck booking GB for 3 nights when 1D had already played 3 this year (the limit of concerts per year is three) but tagging on the extra 2 without any communication with the residents was very poor practice, not to mention against agreement.
Three nights would have been accepted with a bit of moaning and groaning but 5 was just getting greedy - as seen by the blame being put on the residents because of how wonderful these concerts would have been for the economy, and Garth himself threatening to pull out if he doesn't get to play all 5. It's all about the money and the residents shouldn't have to put up with it if they're not happy with it.
The stadium is designed for GAA games.
Twickenham stadium has a ruling for "non sport use". It might well be down to the controlling council.
Twickenham can only be used a certain amount of times for 'non rugby' use and that amount is very small indeed. I know the Jehovas Witnesses use it once a year. I very much doubt they'd allow Twickenham to be used for 5 concerts in any one year.
Even a Pavarotti gig was turned down there.
I would suspect Croke Park and the council have a similar protocol.
Funnily enough they asked to stage five in 2007 but I don't think they ended up doing it - not sure if Richmond council blocked it or it didn't happen as Wembley was completed
http://www.rfu.com/news/2006/october/news-articles/rfuapplyfortwoadditionalconcertsattwickenhamstadiumin2007