Croke Park residents to seek concert injuctions.....your opinions?

JRant · 26-05-2014 10:22AM

OldGoat wrote: »

For anyone living NorthEast of the city commuting by DART, bus or car all gets unavoidably disrupted. I'm not going to drive out through Finglas to get to Fairview, Clontarf, Kilbarrack etc.

Fully agree, took me 1hr 35mins to get home from work on Friday when it normally takes 20/30mins. Everywhere around the area was clogged up from 5pm on.

It was fairly obvious that the calls for people not to queue before gates opened was pretty much widely ignored as well.

However the biggest problem yet again was police sirens and garda helicopters hovering over the area till well past midnight on all 3 nights. It was about 12:30am last night before they stopped.

bumper234 · 26-05-2014 10:32AM

JRant wrote: »

Fully agree, took me 1hr 35mins to get home from work on Friday when it normally takes 20/30mins. Everywhere around the area was clogged up from 5pm on.

It was fairly obvious that the calls for people not to queue before gates opened was pretty much widely ignored as well.

However the biggest problem yet again was police sirens and garda helicopters hovering over the area till well past midnight on all 3 nights. It was about 12:30am last night before they stopped.

And this was a bunch of 12/16 year old girls, Imagine the mayhem when it's a bunch of drunken 40 somethings.

Ash.J.Williams · 26-05-2014 10:47AM

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

i had somewhere to go in drumcondra as i had to do something unrelated to the event itself.

but thanks to the event it was made impossible as i couldnt access drumcondra lower at all and i have to go again another day which is quite an inconvenience !

it wasn't the best idea in the world to have something to do in drumcondra during a one direction gig...just like it's not a great idea to have something on in the docklands if one direction were on in the o2

Caliden · 26-05-2014 11:21AM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

it wasn't the best idea in the world to have something to do in drumcondra during a one direction gig...just like it's not a great idea to have something on in the docklands if one direction were on in the o2

Not exactly great advice there....
For most workers Saturday and Sunday are days when things like a dentist/doctor appointment or grocery shopping can get done.

italodisco · 26-05-2014 11:31AM

I'm local to croker and ffs I can't see what you are moaning about.

Imo it went very well this weekend.

Gardai did a good job, noise was lower than usual .....

If you were delayed getting home well god love you, I used my brain and cycled to work on Friday .

As for traffic moaning for the weekend, well if you lived anywhere on this island you'd have known the gig was on all weekend and have tried to avoid it.

Sick of moaners , really am. I couldn't move my car for the weekend but I got over it lol

italodisco · 26-05-2014 11:34AM

Btw humans have legs to walk cycle run with ....there's also something magical known as alternative routes .

If you're desperate there public transport too .

Then again some people moan about anything .

This is a resident saying this too lol

bumper234 · 26-05-2014 11:34AM

italodisco wrote: »

I'm local to croker and ffs I can't see what you are moaning about.

Imo it went very well this weekend.

Gardai did a good job, noise was lower than usual .....

If you were delayed getting home well god love you, I used my brain and cycled to work on Friday .

As for traffic moaning for the weekend, well if you lived anywhere on this island you'd have known the gig was on all weekend and have tried to avoid it.

Sick of moaners , really am. I couldn't move my car for the weekend but I got over it lol

So you are an able bodied adult who didn't need their car for the weekend and won't need it for the 5 days that GB is playing? Well whoo-de-****ing-doo for you :rolleyes:

How did you get your kids to school?

How did you get your sick mother/father to their doctor/hospital appointments?

How did you get to Tesco for the shopping when you have 3 kids?

To name a few things that OTHERS have to put up with when concerts are on.

cson · 26-05-2014 11:43AM

italodisco wrote: »

I'm local to croker and ffs I can't see what you are moaning about.

Imo it went very well this weekend.

Gardai did a good job, noise was lower than usual .....

If you were delayed getting home well god love you, I used my brain and cycled to work on Friday .

As for traffic moaning for the weekend, well if you lived anywhere on this island you'd have known the gig was on all weekend and have tried to avoid it.

Sick of moaners , really am. I couldn't move my car for the weekend but I got over it lol

Yeah it was actually grand in fairness. That being said I went out on the beer on the Friday/Saturday nights and arrived home after 12 both nights so missed most of it. Sunday was alright too. I still think its mental that there were people queuing @ like 12 in the day there but what can you do.

I doubt the Garth Brooks concert will go as well with the fact that it straddles midweek so its a balls for anyone coming home/going to work who live in the area and more pointedly; the patrons will most definitely be fairly well oiled going in and coming out which presents its own particular problems that you just don't get with teenage girls.

That_Guy · 26-05-2014 11:43AM

italodisco wrote: »

Btw humans have legs to walk cycle run with ....there's also something magical known as alternative routes .

If you're desperate there public transport too .

Then again some people moan about anything .

This is a resident saying this too lol

Walking from town to Ashbourne is an "alternative route". Yep. Good one.

There's only one route from Dublin to Ashbourne. Took me nearly 2 hours to get home on Friday night because of congestion. I knew the traffic would be bad but 2 hours for a 35-40 minute journey is taking the absolute piss.

5 days of Garth Brooks gigs is going to be absolute torture.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 26-05-2014 11:51AM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

it wasn't the best idea in the world to have something to do in drumcondra during a one direction gig...just like it's not a great idea to have something on in the docklands if one direction were on in the o2

Bollox..... I can't get my job to up and move location ya know.

italodisco · 26-05-2014 11:59AM

Well us residents and the public will just have to deal with it.

There are many pros along with all the cons that constantly get mentioned.

If your journey to ashbourne took so long don't blame the gig , blame traffic management as that is clearly that issue.

Garth Brooks is gonna break my effin heart but I'll get over it.

For me my issue is more with what him and his music represent. Country music and it's confederate wavin racist homophobic yokel type lol that's what I hate

Ash.J.Williams · 26-05-2014 12:00PM

Caliden wrote: »

Not exactly great advice there....
For most workers Saturday and Sunday are days when things like a dentist/doctor appointment or grocery shopping can get done.

i work and didn't touch the place....town was a nightmare too

italodisco · 26-05-2014 12:04PM

bumper234 wrote: »

So you are an able bodied adult who didn't need their car for the weekend and won't need it for the 5 days that GB is playing? Well whoo-de-****ing-doo for you :rolleyes:

How did you get your kids to school?

How did you get your sick mother/father to their doctor/hospital appointments?

How did you get to Tesco for the shopping when you have 3 kids?

To name a few things that OTHERS have to put up with when concerts are on.

There's a wonderful thing known as advanced planning.

Stop moaning .

I have family right up against croker and they have kids, elder parents living with them and they didn't moan .

Garth Brooks will be mad in comparison to 1D so save your energy for that one

italodisco · 26-05-2014 12:08PM

Tesco in Drumcondra and Dorset street, aldi on east walk road. Seen as you moaned about getting your shopping. Walk .

Btw most if the elderly residents have no issue with the gigs.

It's the younger more recent residents.
.get over it like some if us have.

It's not worth the high blood pressure and awful stress.

Nothing is.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 26-05-2014 12:18PM

italodisco wrote: »

Btw most if the elderly residents have no issue with the gigs.

Did you ask them all ? I know of a few that are against them and feel betrayed because they thought their agreement was solid.

Now they feel like residents been walked over.

Ash.J.Williams · 26-05-2014 12:25PM

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Bollox..... I can't get my job to up and move location ya know.

you call work "something to do in drumcondra"?

italodisco · 26-05-2014 12:27PM

No not every one of them but quite a few .

I just think we''re all getting to worked up about somethibg we''ll never be able to do anything about .

Sure its pure corruption .

Dublin city council and croker looking after each other .

I'm not not saying we should let them walk all over us don't get me wrong , I'd say though more full on measures would have to be taken as in random protests blocking roads over the next few months .....

What ever happened to the threat of going to court if Hunan rights for an injunction?

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 26-05-2014 12:28PM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

you call work "something to do in drumcondra"?

Yes

I hardly went to the area at the worst time possible just to see screaming kids.

italodisco · 26-05-2014 12:29PM

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

you call work "something to do in drumcondra"?

Clown reply ash

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 26-05-2014 12:32PM

italodisco wrote: »

No not every one of them but quite a few .

I just think we''re all getting to worked up about somethibg we''ll never be able to do anything about .

Sure its pure corruption .

Dublin city council and croker looking after each other .

I'm not not saying we should let them walk all over us don't get me wrong , I'd say though more full on measures would have to be taken as in random protests blocking roads over the next few months .....

What ever happened to the threat of going to court if Hunan rights for an injunction?

If it goes ahead then definitely major corruption

Id like to see the locals up and protest over it but they shouldnt have to with said agreement in place and hopefully it comes through and oul garth only has 2 nights.

I say its also some people more or less sitting back and taking it allowing them to be pushed over which leads to these kind of events

there was a mention of going to a court about it from what I remember but again they have to be either approved or dissapproved first

italodisco · 26-05-2014 12:39PM

You definitely need to pre plan though , I couldn't move my car after 8pm each night of 1D , unreal traffic managed HORRIBLY .

For Garth Brooks I'm going to block our small road by parking outwards , few neighbours in board too .

One thing that Pissed me off are concert goers inability to use bus/train .

Brooks will be traffic mania as the country folk love bringing the jeep up lol

I'm glad I can laugh through it all mind you, life's to short for anurisms

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 26-05-2014 12:44PM

Id say it was managed horribly because it was a young crowd and they had pick up points for parents to collect their kids etc from. Hence why you couldn't move the car

I imagine the old folks will be heading to the boozer afterwards so traffic wont be as bad but they will sure be out of it !

Larbre34 · 26-05-2014 12:45PM

italodisco wrote: »

You definitely need to pre plan though , I couldn't move my car after 8pm each night of 1D , unreal traffic managed HORRIBLY .

For Garth Brooks I'm going to block our small road by parking outwards , few neighbours in board too .

One thing that Pissed me off are concert goers inability to use bus/train .

Brooks will be traffic mania as the country folk love bringing the jeep up lol

I'm glad I can laugh through it all mind you, life's to short for anurisms

Tractor.

Will be interesting to see now, how the new City Council composition deals with residents legitimate complaints. 3 days of 1-D is enough evidence to present a comprehensive objection to the GB series of shows.

The audio from inside peoples homes on RTE this morning from before and during the concert was intolerable for 8 nights over a single season. Id be blockading everything with every vehicle i could get my hands on.

That_Girl_ Is_ A_Cowboy · 26-05-2014 12:45PM

cson wrote: »

Yeah it was actually grand in fairness. That being said I went out on the beer on the Friday/Saturday nights and arrived home after 12 both nights so missed most of it. Sunday was alright too. I still think its mental that there were people queuing @ like 12 in the day there but what can you do.

I doubt the Garth Brooks concert will go as well with the fact that it straddles midweek so its a balls for anyone coming home/going to work who live in the area and more pointedly; the patrons will most definitely be fairly well oiled going in and coming out which presents its own particular problems that you just don't get with teenage girls.

From reading a newspaper article from the independent, I think, I believe there was a hotline set up for residents to phone. Did you phone the hotline in relation to the early queuing.

Larbre34 · 26-05-2014 12:50PM

italodisco wrote: »

d.

If your journey to ashbourne took so long don't blame the gig , blame traffic management as that is clearly that issue.

What a nonsensical comment. The traffic was generated by the gig, the roads infrastructure around the north inner city cannot cope with that kind of volume, no matter now well it is managed, capacity is capacity. Its just an unsuitable venue and neighbourhood.

bumper234 · 26-05-2014 01:02PM

italodisco wrote: »

Tesco in Drumcondra and Dorset street, aldi on east walk road. Seen as you moaned about getting your shopping. Walk .

Btw most if the elderly residents have no issue with the gigs.

It's the younger more recent residents.
.get over it like some if us have.

It's not worth the high blood pressure and awful stress.

Nothing is.

Again

Getting to all of those places is fine when you are young, fit and able bodied....or do you just not see other people :rolleyes:

italodisco · 26-05-2014 01:02PM

Nonsensical?? I was out on the Drumcondra road watching the absolute disaster traffic .

The gardai were only doing what they were told to do by council traffic managers , a garda themself agreed the traffic plan was total sh'te .

It makes a HUGE difference when trying to get people out and moving.

If you were there in person at. the whithworth road watching it you wouldn't be post such sh%te

italodisco · 26-05-2014 01:04PM

bumper234 wrote: »

Again

Getting to all of those places is fine when you are young, fit and able bodied....or do you just not see other people :rolleyes:

I do, but you'll find it's the able bodied doing most if the moaning .

Christ how do the folk in Syria and the likes get by ....

bumper234 · 26-05-2014 01:04PM

Larbre34 wrote: »

Tractor.

Will be interesting to see now, how the new City Council composition deals with residents legitimate complaints. 3 days of 1-D is enough evidence to present a comprehensive objection to the GB series of shows.

The audio from inside peoples homes on RTE this morning from before and during the concert was intolerable for 8 nights over a single season. Id be blockading everything with every vehicle i could get my hands on.

Now we will see if Sinn Fein really do care about people

italodisco · 26-05-2014 01:06PM

Sinn Fein ... God save us all

Croke Park residents to seek concert injuctions.....your opinions?

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