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

Red Nissan wrote: »

And the potential removal of unelected officials too. We supposedly elect a City Council only they are driven roughshod by an unelected person.

twowheelsonly wrote: »

BS. They can make a statement any time they like. Quite easy for them to announce that they wouldn't be allowing any more concerts in Croker after allowing 3 1D gigs. The initial application was lodged in April in any case and they could have blown it out then (and should have if they were intent on sticking to their own 'guidelines').

Red Nissan wrote: »

Agreed, in fact, we don't need a government at all.

jack presley wrote: »

I'd rather an unelected but qualified person making the decisions as opposed to elected people who don't have any experience in the field and who's main agenda is to get votes at the next election.

Red Nissan wrote: »

Brooks cancelled his statement due today and is now announcing his plans on Thursday.

But keep your ears open, things changed by the hour for a time today already.

If it were me, I'd pack my bag, hope for many that I'm wrong tbh, but it's gone way beyond the typical Irish farcsicalness, if I were Brooks, I'd not only walk I'd run.

jack presley wrote: »

Ha ha, Sometimes I agree with that. Wasn't the only person in the last FF/Greens cabinet with business experience one of the Greens who ran a bike shop? And we wonder why the country was ruined?

LordNorbury wrote: »

Sure there was an agreement and the agreement was not respected, I think this is the point the residents Association are trying to make and the council have backed them up fully.

I saw footage the other day of a lockdown type situation around Croke Park before the One Direction concert, where residents had a situation whereby private security people, not even Gardai, were enforcing security controls on streets around Croke Park. I'm sure this is normal enough protocol for large scale events like this, but have any of us ever wondered what it would be like to be living with Gaza strip like security controls operating around us? You'd put up with it on some level, but at what point does it start to feel like you are continually under some sort of a siege in your own house?!?

It seems to me that an agreement was reached and then an agreement was disregarded and the same thing that has caused the ruination of this country and in particular our economy in recent years, namely greed, greed and more fúcking greed, has now been the cause of this debacle, where one organisation appeared to think that it was so well in with the local authority, that the licensing of the event was a mere formality that was as good as in the bag, that the auld nudge and the wink would take care of everything at the end of the day. This is the very same kind of blatant disregard for the planning process in this country, that had shíthole shoebox sized apartments made of glorified cardboard, being thrown up all over the place, some of which have to now be pulled down because they can't even meet the most basic of fire safety regulations.

We can't have it every which way, we can't criticise public authorities when they are asleep at the wheel and then as we have seen with the banks, all sorts of recklessness ends up going on under their noses because they have failed to enforce the law, but yet then when a local authority tries to impose the law and hold people to it, we decide to have a national shít hemorrhage about it because we stupidly think that our still bamboozled domestic economy in Dublin, needs the money more than the whole country needs to have a regime where the laws of the land actually mean something.

We can't have it both ways I think.

The Irish domestic economy has been in a complete heap for the last 6 years, it was destroyed before there was any mention of Garth Brooks coming here, and is still being wrecked through continuing austerity, we have tolerated tens of billions of Euro being taken out of our own pockets by our own government, to pay for failed zombie banks, yet we have a collective nervous breakdown when a local authority tries to fairly apply the law in the face of big business interests in the capital, such as the GAA and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, when the outcome of that decision is that a concert worth around 50 million Euro to the Dublin economy, (50 million that practically none of us will realistically share in unless we happen to own a hotel or a pub in Dublin), is possibly cancelled or curtailed.

Also, the emotional blackmail coming from business lobby groups, the "oh look, the world is watching us now, careful there Ted, we don't want to upset the markets or those bondholders again", that are trying to push back a lawful decision that has been made by the proper authorities, I find to be personally sickening. We are not eejits, we have laws and please God if we have learnt anything in the last 10 years, it is that light touch regulation or no regulation at all, has certainly not done us much service.