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Coldplay - Dublin 2024 - Update Post 1 on Toutless

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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,809 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    The below area would be my recommendation, near enough for a short walk, but far enough from the chaos. Some of the on street parking is 7 days a week, but there are lots of Mon to Fri only.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 13,906 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    The train from/to Maynooth is easy, and there's plenty of parking at the station. Cut out driving through Dublin completely



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭kala85


    Maybe get the train in from leixlip to Drumcondra station.

    Leixlip station has a bigger car park than maynooth.

    Saves you having to drive out in the traffic but the queue for the train home afterwards will be long



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ClickPilcrow


    Also looking for parking recommendations, please, this time coming from Cork. Looking for alternatives to the Red Cow P&R, as the last time I left my car there it was damaged by someone trying to break into it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭woodseythelegend


    hey lads I’m going Sunday night and planning on parking down around Irish town ringsend bringing the bike and cycling up to Croke park and back down to the car after. Any suggestions where I could leave the bike safe around Croke Park please??



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 278 ✭✭iancairns


    What a special night that was, they put on such a good show. Every sensory is overloaded. Getting the crowd involved. Chris is such a great showman.

    I’ve been on here last few weeks asking about trying to get on pitch. I’ve been auto refreshing TM daily every 15mins.

    I lucked out with a Pitch ticket last week on resell and was hopeful would get another, but as the time got closer I bit bullet and got another platinum ticket in 318 section. This was all to be a surprise for wife 40th.

    Was humming and hawing about what to do, risk trying to get onto pitch and if fail then we are separated. So ended up by fluke seeing someone on Reddit who had a ticket in 319 section just across from me but didn’t know what row it was. I drove to clondalkin to swap Pitch for her ticket. And it was only when we got to gig we copped that both tickets were in Row CC. I also was relieved that row C was not low down by pitch but actually back toward exit to bars and on the aisle so was on band level.
    we sussed out both seats about 5mins before band came on stage and realised yeah only 30 seats between the two separate seats. Everyone was already in situ so I stood up and asked everyone would they mind moving across one seat and then we could sit together, which they all did! It made it all the more amazing and thanked everyone. Was such a high after that. Weeks trying to get tickets together and be complete fluke I was able to match us up on same row. Was meant to be!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 49 Kissy_Lips




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭Titanium11


    Was anyone able to get a ticket last minute?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭kala85


    What about using the Dublin bikes, rental bikes?

    You could get one and cycle in and cycle back.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭kala85


    Did u try the train from cork to Dublin Heuston?

    Or get train in from Portlaoise. 40 mins on the cork train.

    Red Cow is also a good option as you have done already.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭BlazingSaddler


    Fair play to Irish Rail, when I saw the queue at Drumcondra station afterwards I thought it would take hours to get a train to Maynooth but it cleared in no time



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭woodseythelegend


    I’ve no account for those poxy yokes but I suppose I could open up an account. Thanks for the suggestion. Seems like the rest of the experts on here that know the answer everything(even how to run the country) couldn’t answer my simple question. Thanks again



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭MVR2021


    Has anyone been lucky to get pair of tickets on TM for Sunday or Monday? Trying all day today and haven’t seen a single ticket popping up



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,407 ✭✭✭ooter


    There are spaces to lock your bike outside the Cusack stand turnstiles, over in the corner. I've used them in the past for Dublin matches. There'll be loads of stewards about so should be pretty safe



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭damo80


    Saw signs for a bike lock up by croker (signs were on Jones road



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,043 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    That moment has come back to me today once or twice.

    I think you're right that it'll haunt him for a while. It was very very harsh on the poor fella.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭Justin10


    Anyone know does b&c enter the stadium at the same entrance then split to a different tunnels to walk on the pitch?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,043 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    Yep. That's exactly it. As soon as we came in the gate, on the right was a "Pitch B" gate to follow.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,912 ✭✭✭kala85


    Is anyone able to get onto the Coldplay section of the ticket master website.

    I'm still in a queue..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 efk1


    Use the app!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,486 ✭✭✭crl84


    Can't get onto the website or log in on the app.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭Mrs Shuttleworth


    I got one at 5pm on Friday using the TM App on my phone having tried non stop the previous 24 hours and being locked out on suspicion of being a bot.

    I heard the show note for note from my garden Thursday and FOMO grabbed me by the throat to get a ticket for Friday. I mean this genuinely - the numbers sound edgier, bassier and rockier outside Croker than inside.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 158 ✭✭onlymeself


    Going tomorrow night with wife and bringing two 17 years olds. Hotel is about an hour's walk and seems to be very few public transport options after the show to that direction. I was thinking of getting food and few drinks after concert and leaving things settle down and then head back to hotel a bit later when might be a chance of a taxi. Is there anywhere that might suit that would leave in 17 year olds when the concert is over. If I tell them they are walking for an hour they'll kill me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭antimatterx




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,043 ✭✭✭✭Exclamation Marc


    Honestly, outside of a take-away chipper, you'll be walking back into town. Pubs will be closed soon after the gig with it being a Sunday.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭rossieboy


    Sorry to jump on this but any recommendations for late bars in Dublin tomorrow night? 4 of us going tomorrow night & one of them is my mum in her 60s but she would love a drink after the gig & I have no idea where would be open considering it’s a Sunday.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭Mrs Shuttleworth


    First rule going to Croke Park: have your dinner beforehand. No chance of food in there, or afterwards, except two dodgy chippers nearby which will be mobbed. Croke Park ran out of chips at 720pm on Friday FFS.

    Second rule: if you want sweets, crisps, chocolate etc bring them in your bag. Tiny local children know how cr@p the facilities are in there: on the approach to Croke Park they were selling cans and bars from their front gardens for 50c each.

    Bag searches were a superficial glance and no physical patdown. Take from that what you will.

    My suggestion is to stock your hotel room with what you'll want late at night and have your hot food beforehand.

    Leave around 1015pm when they sing Fix You.

    You should get a taxi on Ballybough Road no problem.



  • Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,630 Mod ✭✭✭✭Nigel Fairservice


    Any idea on where to park for Sunday? Will be driving up to Dublin on the motorway. Wasn't sure we'd be able to go to the concert until a few hours a go so we are a bit all over the place on the organisation front. Ideally we'll park at the Red Cow but I imagine a lot of people will have the same idea.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,518 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 7,809 Mod ✭✭✭✭delly


    I put an map in earlier, but I'd recommend Phibsborough and walking down the canal. Others will recommend Red Cow, or park and ride etc. but you honestly don't want or need that hassle. There's a perception of parking being non existent for Croke Park gigs and it's simply not the case, other than directly near the venue.



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