Dublin City Council, Aiken Promotions and GAA to be called before Transport Committee – O’Donovan

Fine Gael Limerick TD and Member of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications, Patrick O’Donovan, has today (Wednesday), requested that a special meeting of the committee be convened, in light of yesterday’s decision to cancel all five Garth Brooks concerts scheduled to take place in Croke Park.

“Dublin City Council Manager, Owen Keegan, and representatives from Aiken Promotions and from the GAA, are to be invited before the committee and I hope that they will appear later this week or at the latest before the Dáil recess next week.

“Four hundred thousand people have been inconvenienced and thousands, who had booked flights or hotels, will be out of pocket, due to this decision.

“It is clear that this whole episode has been badly dealt with. We must get to the bottom of how this happened to ensure it will never happen again.

“Fingers have been pointing in every direction over the past few days, people are angry and they are bitterly disappointed.

“The Transport and Communications Committee will put forward the questions the public has been asking; how were 400,000 tickets sold for concerts that were not liceced, why was this decision taken so late and how can we prevent this from happening in the future?”