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16/07/2014
Aiken And GAA To Meet Oireachtas Committee
The Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications is to meet today with representatives of Aiken Promotions and the GAA over the cancellation of five Garth Brooks concerts.
Four hundred thousand tickets had been sold for five planned events to be held at Croke Park next week. However, all five shows have now been canceled after Dublin City Council granted a licence for just three of the five sold out events.
The council that it was acting on an agreement put in place in 2009, that stated no more than three shows would be held at Croke Park per year.
In response Mr Brooks said that he would play five shows, or none. He refused a number of alternative options proposed by both the council and Aiken Promotions.
Peter Aiken and Paraic Duffy, GAA director general, will meet the committee today (Wednesday).
(MH/IT)
Four hundred thousand tickets had been sold for five planned events to be held at Croke Park next week. However, all five shows have now been canceled after Dublin City Council granted a licence for just three of the five sold out events.
The council that it was acting on an agreement put in place in 2009, that stated no more than three shows would be held at Croke Park per year.
In response Mr Brooks said that he would play five shows, or none. He refused a number of alternative options proposed by both the council and Aiken Promotions.
Peter Aiken and Paraic Duffy, GAA director general, will meet the committee today (Wednesday).
(MH/IT)
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