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Cathal Gillen writes:

We like most people are sick to death hearing about Garth Brooks so we decided to do something about it. We created a Chrome plugin called “Garth Blocks” which removes mentions of his majesty from the internet and your newsfeed. Some more info here including the link to download the plugin in the Chrome web store

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Meanwhile…

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Owen Keegan

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“Nothing that has occurred since I made the decision has changed my opinion that the decision was appropriate, balanced and reasonable. I very much regret the decision of Garth Brooks/Aiken Promotions not to hold the three permitted concerts and not to examine the options proposed by the city council in relation to the two concerts that were not permitted. This was their decision and they must accept the consequences.”

Dublin City chief executive Owen Keegan (above) arriving at Leinster House today.

Keegan: Brooks and promoter ‘must accept consequences’ of cancellations (breakingNews)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

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In today’s Sunday Independent, author and journalist John Waters writes about his experience of Pantigate west of the Shannon and wonders if teh gays would be treated differently in relation to the Croke Park gigs.

Nobody I met had ever tweeted anything, or cared one whit what some drag queen had said about me, or what had happened afterwards.

Most had registered nothing of it, and those who had were even more perplexed – one woman even thinking that someone had accused me of being a homosexual.

On the issue of Garth Brooks in Croke Park, he poses the question:

Ask yourself this: if the performer in question was Elton John, would the same objections be raised?


Searching for the soul of the ‘true’ Ireland … (John Waters, Sunday Independent)

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Well that’s ad-he-sive.

We’re not one-billionth as sad as Garth is right now. :(

90348592[Leah Farrell (left)  and Ruth Marie Callinan watching Garth yesterday]

 

What did the Garth hoo ha say about us?

“….Sad, too, is how the bile unleashed at Brooks fans hints at Dublin’s insecurity, that with it becoming more like a mini London – its old-world charm getting pushed out by Facebook, Google and an endless cavalcade of chain stores – we’re left clinging to elitism to justify spending €1,200 (£995) a month on a damp one-bedroom flat. We yearn to feel special – berating Brooks fans creates in us the impression that, no matter how bad things are deep down, at least we’re not as bad as them.
In all, the Garth Brooks saga is indicative of Ireland’s split psyche. His urban haters and rural admirers represent two opposing viewpoints, one as faulty as the other.
There are those who’re happy to embrace the memories that the singer conjures up – the innocence of the 90s and of the past in general, the good times, the drinking and the, “Sure, what harm?” attitude. Then there are those who would rather rip up the last few centuries of Irish history, forget they’ve come from the same dubious stock and start all over again….”

The Garth Brooks Bullshit Defines Ireland (James Nolan, Vice)

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Irish Times letters

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)