You’ll only get sympathy and understanding when people know the full details.

I live in Dun Laoghaire and had heard nothing about this Festival at all. There seemed to be no publicity to it at all. It is most certainly a disappointment for all those who organised, who were going tlo preform and who were going to attend. There are two other Festivals taking place in Dun Laoghaire over the weekend – The Chalk Festival and the Ukulele Hooley Festival (Ukulele by the Sea). Come on down over the next two and have a gander!!

Ukulele festival is mostly free, you can pay a bit to do workshops with performers, details on http://www.ukulelehooley.com busk is at 3 today at bandstand in People’s park, loads of music tomorrow too

the ticket prices were a joke, more like the rich peoples festival

Jack get up off your own arse and do something for the community before you slag off other volunteers. I’m sure the reason for the cancelation was red tape.

It seems that the People’s Festival became a victim of its own success before it ran the first time! If it had only been in licensed venues, then nothing would have happened, but because an “outdoors” component was part of the plan, the powers seemingly looked into it further and realised that thousands of people were approaching. No appropriate numbers of stewards/security/gardai in the plan meant that the public order aspect probably ended the Festival before it started. The organisers possibly didn’t expect such a positive response and the powers in Dun Laoghaire possibly didn’t WANT such a positive response and in the end probably both sides have to carry part of the blame. Pity! But it clearly shows that there is a event vacuum that has to be filled!

https://www.facebook.com/DublinEventGuide/posts/262231110471748

The festival of world s cultures had taken a bad turn. Too many "fish and chips" vans, too poor standard in the quality of the acts. Defo too much money spent.

PS. I heard something about this other one much earlier in the year but nothing since. I live in D/L also.

The organisation, it would appear, was seriously lacking.

“typical just as people are trying to promote some fun music and much needed business in Dun Laoghaire more red tape appears.4,000 confirmed attending The Bar and Grill full of tourists looking forward to a great weekend.Many thanks to the killjoys and negative busy bodies who have destroyed this great country.”

The Peoples Festival: “There are more than one admin for this page and event, some of whom have not slept for days as we scrambled to rectify the problems we faced. Your empathy for such things is obviously boundless.”

The Peoples Festival: “the statement issued is the official People’s Festival statement. We are not saying it was DLRCC or the Garda, and statements to the contrary should be seen as speculation.”

“Ok So it was an issue of public safety as the festival was planned to be a smaller event and then the number of people coming, according to FB “snowballed”. Was that the red tape?”

The Peoples Festival: “It would have been an entirely free event run by volunteers and artists who waived their usual touring fee’s – may we add. Thanks for the support folks :-)”

The Festival of World Cultures was the best thing that ever happened to Dún Laoghaire. How it ran a deficit of â