Looks like her tattoo is in Arabic, still very distinct though. Hope she’s found safe and well.

I know madness at it all rightn

I was there and it was awful, left halfway through.

Second girl Nicole Byrne has turned up safe, thank god.

And my daughter said she only saw 2 Garda all night!…..

Saw tonnes of Garda, met people at the bar or the jacks. Stayed out of the mosh in the middle. What’s wrong with you people? You’re like children.

And Amy could you and your friends not name your own designated meeting place before the concert started

I hope she is found to

why do people thumb down these sentiments?

Gary, why do you care? They are obviously silly people and silly people don’t deserve the satisfaction of your comment, which is what they want! Suggestion to the Journal, give us a middle finger up button that we can give to the trolls! ;)

Wow,Thats great News that she has turned up safe.

Yup Gary.
Been wondering about the thumbs down for some time now.
Maybe this is a new type of syndrome which deserves investigation into negative behaviorism.

I can’t see how this girl couldn’t have made contact with friends/family before now, even if her phone was dead. Sure pretty much everyone in the country has a phone.. Maybe this will encourage people who travel in groups to events like this to designate a meeting place if they get separated, can’t always rely on phone charge! Anyway, I’m glad she’s been found safe..

Ground her??? haha she’s 19 Ray.. she’s not a kid.

Hope this girl turns up safe & well soon!

We heard you the first time

How do they?

How is the organisers responsibility to keep tabs on everyone? Thats why there are age limits at events like this one. Drugs in one form or another always make it into gigs like this, and when people have to be strip searched to stop knives making their way into music events….that’s a sad day

The organizers are not personally responsible for 30000 kids. This is a societal problem, a bad attitude to drink and drugs, people seem to take the hard partying Irish to an even more extreme degree then 15 years ago.

Looks like her tattoo is in Arabic, still very distinct though. Hope she’s found safe and well.

Problem is that people aren’t officially deemed missing for 24hours. This story was being tweeted around yesterday.

@brian daly. rubbish. you are officially missing when youre reported missing. 24hrs thing is movies/american.

” will NOT speculate” sorry about the typo.

Barry – go read the licence application and you’ll get the answers. What do you expect them to do. Babysit everyone?

Not at all Brian, just apply a little common sense to avoid needless loss or suffering, which is not “baby sitting”. They are inviting people to buy their tickets, to go to the gig. They should show better regard for the patrons. MCD highlighted in their statement the extra security above licence requirements. So why not mention how many EMT’s were on or how many patrons were refused entry for being intoxicated or if they laid on water? The lack of this info in the statement allows for the question to be asked.

I’m no fan of MCD myself….having worked with Ticketmaster for years I have strong opinions on them and their procedures to protect and ensure the safety of concert goers above other things. The promoters lost the run of themselves completely here. Interesting Barry, I was thinking about EMTs aswell when I heard this story first, it didn’t surprise me that they omitted them from the statement. I recently met the head of the Derry City of Culture events team, they’ve gotten sponsership from a bottled water company to supply free bottles to events in the city…I’ve seen it done over here in England but not in Ireland. Hope this becomes a trend.

Blame the people who over drank, the people who took drugs for their actions not organisers. Ridiculous to blame them. Nanny state is what you want.

People need to take responsibility for their own actions as much as possible.

As for that animal who stabbed people I don’t know. Never let him out.

I hope this girl is found safe and well.

Aidan, like it or not the organisers has a responsibility to the consumer that they get the service they pay for. This includes being in a safe environment, both from a crowd and venue perspective. Clearly the security of the event has to come into question here, this is part of the service. Crowd control is important to ensuring the safety of the concert goer, and from the looks of this MCD are under pressure to keep their reputation intact. Of course, MCD didn’t make these people pick up knives and get absolutely langers but they have a rep for organising poorly structured events…Oxegen anyone?!

I really hope this girl gets home to Cork ok.

She’s been found safe and well apparently. :)

MCD are no way responsible for this, how could they be. ???

Glad shes been found.
But I still think to hold organisers responsible is madness. How much security do you want? Metal detectors? 1 Garda for each scroat? I just don’t know how you expect then to monitor 100% of 45000 people, if even .01% are bag eggs that leaves 4-5 people you may not see or catch who are dodgy. Usually when something bad happens its too late. Sure how do you know until it happens?

I was talking to a girl I work with here in London and she was saying that the story goes as follows: they were using metal detectors for a section of the crowd as they were coming in early on but gradually during the day they stopped using these to keep the flow of the crowd going. I heard of people that had bottles of vodka in their handbags and got in without a stop and search, another group of my friends were searched thoroughly before they entered the site. Why the disparity in security checks at the gate?! I don’t know what firm did the security but questions do need to be asked there. I agree with you in the sense that you can’t personally watch over 45,000 people. But as a promoter, you have the responsibility to protect each ticket holder from the minute they go through the gate to when they leave.

@ Brian Daly I totally agree with you. I would have thought that @ 18 and over that a persons actions are their own responsibility and that some of these young people would have been trusted to have babysat for pocket money through secondary school and some ( and thankfully it a small minority) cannot look after themselves even over the age of consent they still need babysitters and the babysitters that will be entrusted to carry out this chore wear Navy Uniforms and are paid by the state. Yes our Prison Service and their is quite a few Prisons in our little State all well EQUIPT too I heard Thankfully most of the thousands that attended on both night DID BEHAVE and enjoyed their evening

she is not a child at 19, and unless she has been held hostage for the past 36 hours, she needs a good swift kick up the backside for doing this to her family and friends.

I agree with you Josephine, after watching her poor mother on the news last night, and especially after they discovered her bag with phone and purse inside I presumed the worst!
I’m so glad she’s been found but if that were my daughter she sure as hell wouldn’t be doing it again!

Your way off trust me

she got seperated from them and she missed the last bus to cork

All well and good saying that now, but two parents didn’t have a clue where their daughter was for two days.

Charming.

Great news that she’s been located.

Thanks for feeding the trolls Paul

Sorry about that Tom. Don’t post on here that often so not used to dealing with the pond life that troll sites like this:) Thanks for the advice.

If I said to everyone to thumbs me down they’d probably thumbs me up. As you said its pond life trolls on here mainly

Maybe the people who are intelligent enough to be able to read the article! It’s about her been found safe and well!

:)

Pray to who? The god that ceases to exist

I prayed for sun last week and all I got was rain! So I think I’ll pass on that one thanks very much! ;)

Cop on

Sorry finger just slipped there

Give it over

We’re all broke, we get it!

Spare us Marie. I feel for her family but you do everyone involved a disservice by presuming drink had anything to do with this. Your woe-is-me attitude towards how young people spend their money is grating, as is your assumption that this girl was handed money rather than earning it. The scene on sat night was grim but there were plenty of us there who had a perfectly enjoyable and sober evening. Save your prejudice for Joe Duffy.

I agree! She’s 19, a legal adult! At that age I was saving for my apartment and earning my own money. How dare you stereotype this young woman.

Marie, turn off Liveline, close your computer and please go and take a running jump….

Liveline isn’t the real world, Marie

@Marie, your primitive views are nothing more than a distraction from the main issue which is that of a missing girl.

I would not like to hear your opinions on house music.

You would have a bit more money if you weren’t sitting around listening to liveline all day Marie…

Awful time to cry the poor mouth on an article like this.

Blah Blah Blah, I haven’t a shackle after I’m paid but am glad to have my health and a happy and safe family, I’d give my last euro to my kids if it meant they were happy… What they do with it when they are teenagers I can only hope will be good things but even good, well rared kids can go a stray or get led a stray! Please God this girl gets home! Way too must loss and suffering from one night out!

its not 70% please check your facts marie

Ah, give poor Marie a break! We’ve all listened to Liveline at some stage and from reports on the news, there was a lot of underage drinking. I don’t think Marie’s comment referred to this particular girl. Thank goodness she’s ok. Must have been a stressful wait for her family.

Don’t know about everyone but anything I ever hear on liveline usually starts with “well I wasn’t there / I didn’t see it….. but (insert random anger here)”

actually it wasnt at the time those comments were posted, when an article is updated (as u can see in the headline) the old comments are still there

great news shes ok!

Hi Niall, to echo what Abi said, this is an update to a previous article about Aoife being missing.

Thanks, Emer

when a article is updated the comments stay the same so most these are from previous article on this today when she was still missing

@Joan, as far as I can tell there were none of your comments removed from this article. Maybe it was one of the other articles about incidents at the Phoenix Park?

Thanks, Emer

I’ve had a search through Joan and can’t find it. Sorry about that.

Emer

This has been discussed earlier. It’s the same article as earlier! It was updated!

Fair enough. My mistake. I was completely confused!