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Garth Brooks concerts cancelled - **READ FIRST POST FOR MOD NOTES**

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  • #5672
    signostic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,887 ✭✭✭signostic


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    Paraic Duffy now knows more objections were forged

    An hour and a half in and not one person has asked about the effect of holding concerts in CP has on residents. Not one

    Does anyone know if any of the residents groups will get their say here


  • #5673
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    signostic wrote: »
    and another suggesting Clones as a venue...
    Where apparently they would not object. Psychics and mind readers these lads

    Barrett - apparently you cannot get to Drumcondra from Bray on the train - I can, if I change at Pearse


  • #5674
    nxbyveromdwjpg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭nxbyveromdwjpg


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    Paraic Duffy now knows more objections were forged

    An hour and a half in and not one person has asked about the effect of holding concerts in CP has on residents. Not one

    They were through that with the 1D discussion at the start. What else needs to be said?


  • #5675
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    This is as clear a reason (if you ever needed one) why TD's should not be involved in planning. :rolleyes:


  • #5676
    nxbyveromdwjpg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭nxbyveromdwjpg


    Mystery 15 grand coming up now


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  • #5677
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    Aiken now wants legislation immediately due to it being an event of national significance. Base it on 40% of objections, as was in the paper.

    Let's ignore 60$% of valid objections

    Don't like Aiken - why don;t you get GAreth to do 3 shows


  • #5678
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    nm wrote: »
    This guy is at least broadly mentioning the 'Subject to Licence' process, which absolutely needs to change now if there if risk of refusal

    Aiken has said it worked fine for him for years.


  • #5679
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    awwwww, Poor old Peter, his rights have been trampled on. Irony?


  • #5680
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Fr. Ted was fiction Peter...maybe the 'stuff' in ONE paper was too.


  • #5681
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    I honestly can't remember now, I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone. The committee are calling Aiken Peter, did they call Keegan Mr Keegan yesterday, or use his first name as well?


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  • #5682
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Was this PAC committee convened to find a way to get around planning and put the concerts back on??? This is shocking stuff.

    Private meetings being arranged now.


  • #5683
    nxbyveromdwjpg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭nxbyveromdwjpg


    Great stuff


  • #5684
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    I am sitting here in absolute shock. Garth Brooks fans or not, if there is anybody that has witnessed this today that thinks this is the right way to do things, should go and pitch a fecking tent in Galway.


  • #5685
    secman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,658 ✭✭✭secman


    My god... can't believe what i just saw and heard, I just witnessed an arse licking fest. An absolutely brilliant video to show why we took politicians out of planning decisions. Gombeens the lot of them.


  • #5686
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    First question
    You are stating that Keegan gave an assurance that 5 would be granted. Who do we believe?

    Great question

    Someone's telling porkies!


  • #5687
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    secman wrote: »
    My god... can't believe what i just saw and heard, I just witnessed an arse licking fest. An absolutely brilliant video to show why we took politicians out of planning decisions. Gombeens the lot of them.
    And al the time, Owen Keegan is making copious notes with his solicitor


  • #5688
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    muddypaws wrote: »
    I am sitting here in absolute shock. Garth Brooks fans or not, if there is anybody that has witnessed this today that thinks this is the right way to do things, should go and pitch a fecking tent in Galway.
    secman wrote: »
    My god... can't believe what i just saw and heard, I just witnessed an arse licking fest. An absolutely brilliant video to show why we took politicians out of planning decisions. Gombeens the lot of them.

    That has to be one of the most flagrant abuses of the purposes of a PAC I have ever seen.


  • #5689
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    And al the time, Owen Keegan is making copious notes with his solicitor

    I certainly hope so, looks like he is going to have to be the last bastion of a democracy here.


  • #5690
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    Keegan told GAA that DCC would be supportive and gave no indication a refusal would come.
    "I'll swear an affidavit" He may have to

    Keegan passed the baton on to John Downey. Was John Downey at the hearing yesterday? He seems to have been pivotal
    in all the planning.


  • #5691
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    That has to be one of the most flagrant abuses of the purposes of a PAC I have ever seen.
    One thing that went through my mind was that Paraic Duffy is this generation's Archbishop John McQuaid.

    I doubt Sean Kelly would have been so pig headed


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  • #5692
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    If they listened to both days evidence, went away and discussed it, looked into the paper trail etc, and then decided that DCC were in the wrong, then fair enough, a proper investigation. But to have two sessions, the second of which had no real questions in it, except trying to find out where the boat is, so that the gigs could be put back on if necessary, and then to start talking about a judicial review whilst still in one of the sessions, in front of 'witnesses' is so farcical that I cannot believe its just happened.


  • #5693
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Once again we have TD's and big money meeting in private looking for ways to get around a planning decision.

    Wow.


  • #5694
    james66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭james66


    AngryHippie wrote: »
    Nope.

    The concerts never had permission, so it wasn't something that was being taken away. three were granted, a fourth was offered.
    Brooks cancelled them by deciding not to play any. Brooks is a tool.

    Stop using the word "basically" to reverse the source of the cancellation.

    Páraic Duffy says Dublin City Council told GAA they would support all five Garth Brooks concerts
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0716/631046-garth-brooks-country-tourism/


  • #5695
    muddypaws
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭muddypaws


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Once again we have TD's and big money meeting in private looking for ways to get around a planning decision.

    Wow.

    And they're so stupid that they don't realise its all been filmed, and is there for the world to see. Or, are they too arrogant?


  • #5696
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,388 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    Aiken has said it worked fine for him for years.
    Thats because he has never attempted anything as utterly outrageous as this before.


    It'd be like me saying "mcdonalds always give me a free ketchup whenever I bought a big mac meal before, everyone knows its free, then I went in the other day, bought nothing and asked for 50 sachets and they said no, whats that all about?!" with the same pathetic feigned confusion, claiming its similar to what has gone on before.


  • #5697
    Itsdacraic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,361 ✭✭✭Itsdacraic


    Happyman42 wrote: »
    That has to be one of the most flagrant abuses of the purposes of a PAC I have ever seen.

    Its not the PAC


  • #5698
    userod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭userod


    is his vessel still sailing?


  • #5699
    Happyman42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,066 ✭✭✭✭Happyman42


    Itsdacraic wrote: »
    Its not the PAC

    Apologies...The Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications.


  • #5700
    Permabear
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  • #5701
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    Where was Mary Lou today - Gerry was at leaders questions


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