What other cultural events in Ireland were a clusterfúck and omnishambles?

IvaBigWun · 15-07-2014 08:20PM

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

The time the FAI brought UEFA officials over when they were mounting a bid for the Euro Championships was a personal favourite.

They visited Croke Park which banned "foreign games", the Bertie Bowel which was wasn't built yet and Landsdowne Road which was being knocked.

:pac:

bobrawn20 · 15-07-2014 08:21PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Oh, Swedish House Mafia, the Phoenix Park!

2 or 3 scumbags doesn't mean it was a disaster. 99.9% had a great time.

Birneybau · 15-07-2014 08:22PM

bobrawn20 wrote: »

2 or 3 scumbags doesn't mean it was a disaster. 99.9% had a great time.

Right...

Shakespeare's Sister · 15-07-2014 08:22PM

bobrawn20 wrote: »

2 or 3 scumbags

99.9% had a great time.

Both figures extremely made up.

Frank Lee Midere · 15-07-2014 08:24PM

Magaggie wrote: »

This isn't angry or indignant, but just curious: what is so clusterfuk/omnishambles about the Gathering?
I mean, if people aren't into the idea, totally fair enough, but there was this collective disgust and anger in relation to it, and I never actually heard of or read a decent reason - just seemed like a bandwagon.

You get a certain Gombeen angry with any vague effort to improve stuff.

And there was no shambles here. Garth didn't get a licence for 5 days, didn't want to play 3.

mrsoundie · 15-07-2014 08:24PM

Magaggie wrote: »

Both figures extremely made up.

75% of the time

bobrawn20 · 15-07-2014 08:25PM

Magaggie wrote: »

Both figures extremely made up.

If you'd like to state WHY you think it was a disaster then the figures will reveal themselves to be true.

Frank Lee Midere · 15-07-2014 08:25PM

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

The time the FAI brought UEFA officials over when they were mounting a bid for the Euro Championships was a personal favourite.

They visited Croke Park which banned "foreign games", the Bertie Bowel which was wasn't built yet and Landsdowne Road which was being knocked.

It's fairly common to show sites for unbuilt stadia. For instance - the British Olympics.

efb · 15-07-2014 08:28PM

Frank Lee Midere wrote: »

It's fairly common to show sites for unbuilt stadia. For instance - the British Olympics.

London

Frank Lee Midere · 15-07-2014 08:30PM

efb wrote: »

London

Yeah. Whatever. The stadium wasn't built until they got the Olympics.

Shakespeare's Sister · 15-07-2014 08:30PM

bobrawn20 wrote: »

If you'd like to state WHY you think it was a disaster then the figures will reveal themselves to be true.

"Two or three" scumbags? Two or three people can't possibly create as much mayhem as that.
"99.9%" - a figure pulled out of thin air.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18772326

I'm not saying it to annoy you, I just disagree with claiming inaccurate statements are true.

gugleguy · 15-07-2014 08:31PM

Magaggie wrote: »

This isn't angry or indignant, but just curious: what is so clusterfuk/omnishambles about the Gathering?
I mean, if people aren't into the idea, totally fair enough, but there was this collective disgust and anger in relation to it, and I never actually heard of or read a decent reason - just seemed like a bandwagon.

Well, Michael O'Leary called the the whole thing 'The Grabbing' curiously enough.:)

Shakespeare's Sister · 15-07-2014 08:32PM

gugleguy wrote: »

Well, Michael O'Leary called the the whole thing 'The Grabbing' curiously enough.:)

But who was forced to part with their money?

Birneybau · 15-07-2014 08:34PM

Magaggie wrote: »

"Two or three" scumbags? Two or three people can't possibly create as much mayhem as that.
"99.9%" - a figure pulled out of thin air.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-18772326

I'm not saying it to annoy you, I just disagree with claiming inaccurate statements are true.

You can prove anything with facts.

Birneybau · 15-07-2014 08:35PM

gugleguy wrote: »

Well, Michael O'Leary called the the whole thing 'The Grabbing' curiously enough.:)

He'd be one to know about that kind of thing.

bobrawn20 · 15-07-2014 08:36PM

Magaggie wrote: »

"Two or three" scumbags? Two or three people can't possibly create as much mayhem as that.
"99.9%" - a figure pulled out of thin air.

I'm not saying it to annoy you, I just disagree with claiming inaccurate statements are true.

Well considering the guy charged with the stabbing is the one responsible for 7 of them then yeah.. And .1% would be 45 people.

thelad95 · 15-07-2014 08:37PM

This was brilliant. Tubridy would just cut to a break now though

efb · 15-07-2014 08:38PM

Pantigate

dalta5billion · 15-07-2014 08:40PM

Adamantium wrote: »

I'll tell you a cultural thing...

Amazing how the mass graves of 800 babies in Galway had vanished from the national conversation, gone.

Last article about it, was about a month ago on the web.

Maybe because we realised that the facts surrounding it hadn't been fully established and also that the media went batshit crazy with speculation on it for like a month.

baaba maal · 15-07-2014 08:40PM

People, we losing focus here-

Ok, this is definitely stretching it in terms of culture, but Samantha Fox's appearance at a promotional event and then mauling by alcohol-fuelled "fans" and the subsequent Sunday tabloid headline "Sexy Sam Mauled by Cavan Cavemen".

I can't believe I googled this and the only reference to it was a case study in a book on gender politices (my, we've come a long way!!).

I trust I'm not the only person to remember this incident?

ratracer · 15-07-2014 08:41PM

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Guns N' Roses, 2010

Wiki

I got refunded for this through the small claims court!!

Harry Palmr · 15-07-2014 08:46PM

Does Pee Flynn on the Late Late count? I'd say that was a cultural event rather than political.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzOJwlqZieE

Not to mention the same fellas moment on radio re Mary Robinson staying at home.

emo72 · 15-07-2014 08:49PM

To the poster who said the Garth brooks concerts weren't a "cultural event" would "culchie ral event" be a more accurate description?

Also I remember back in the eighties or early nineties radio 2 FM was having a "spectacular laser show" in Dublin city and the idea was to go to the mountains or somewhere high up and tune into the radio station and listen to the music synced with the lasers. Except the lasers didn't work and we were all stick up mountains.

EyeSight · 15-07-2014 09:07PM

Adamantium wrote: »

I'll tell you a cultural thing...

Amazing how the mass graves of 800 babies in Galway had vanished from the national conversation, gone.

Last article about it, was about a month ago on the web.

Nothing to do with this thread. Why do people in AH always do this? "You're asking about the best place to buy an umbrella? When Israel are bombing Palestine? :mad:"

On topic: What Celtic tiger concert was it? I think it was Barbra Streisand that was around 400 euro per ticket and in the end it was awful, venue water logged etc.

Adamantium · 15-07-2014 09:21PM

EyeSight wrote: »

Nothing to do with this thread. Why do people in AH always do this? "You're asking about the best place to buy an umbrella? When Israel are bombing Palestine? :mad:"

On topic: What Celtic tiger concert was it? I think it was Barbra Streisand that was around 400 euro per ticket and in the end it was awful, venue water logged etc.

Cultural "event" is fairly broad, could be anything.
Your analogy is correct, but not for this thread.

ArnoldJRimmer · 15-07-2014 09:23PM

EyeSight wrote: »

Nothing to do with this thread. Why do people in AH always do this? "You're asking about the best place to buy an umbrella? When Israel are bombing Palestine? :mad:"

On topic: What Celtic tiger concert was it? I think it was Barbra Streisand that was around 400 euro per ticket and in the end it was awful, venue water logged etc.

Yep, venue was a disaster, there were cars parked along the motorway as no one could get near the venue, and the rain was crazy. I only know because I was at a GAA match in Mullingar that day and saw it on the way back, honest

This famous game with then World Champions Italy in 1985 also springs to mind.

http://www.dundalkfc.com/history/irish-football-time-capsule/dalymount-mayhem-ireland-v-italy-1985/

Duckworth_Luas · 15-07-2014 09:29PM

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

This famous game with then World Champions Italy in 1985 also springs to mind.

http://www.dundalkfc.com/history/irish-football-time-capsule/dalymount-mayhem-ireland-v-italy-1985/

Further to overcrowding problems, a stilesman was attacked and £1500 of gate money stolen.

:pac:

Calibos · 15-07-2014 09:33PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

The thing in merrion square for the olympians in 2012. It was lashing rain and it was obvious nobody wanted to be there

Contrast with Brays Home-Coming for Katie Taylor.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/olympics/irish-news/triumphant-bray-homecoming-for-olympic-hero-katie-taylor-26886890.html

baaba maal · 15-07-2014 09:44PM

EyeSight wrote: »

Nothing to do with this thread. Why do people in AH always do this? "You're asking about the best place to buy an umbrella? When Israel are bombing Palestine? :mad:"

On topic: What Celtic tiger concert was it? I think it was Barbra Streisand that was around 400 euro per ticket and in the end it was awful, venue water logged etc.

Streisand! How could I forget?? Castletown House in Celbridge.......only it wasn't in the House as such- more a muddy field a mile away. Those on stilettos fared worst of all!

cml387 · 15-07-2014 09:48PM

For those of a certain age. Self Aid.

What other cultural events in Ireland were a clusterfúck and omnishambles?

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