Society has fallen apart, Niall. Respect is gone & no one is prepared to accept personal accountability & responsibility for one’s own actions. From the top down.

Trickle down effect. If the people at the top are utter vagabonds and recieve little or no punishment, how do u expect the rest of society to behave. This shit system has got to go and quick.

U said it, Derek.

Cheers Declan. The key to happiness is making someone else happy.

Agreed. And when they charge 6quid a pint at the venue, they can expect everyone to be tanked by the time they arrive.

Makes sense Peter, that’s why it will probably never happen.

The concert goers could get bottles of beer for €1 in the supermarket if they bought a box of it – 24 btls? Head up to the park & drink it in the sun before heading inti the concert venue. Why would they go straight in & pay 5 or 6 times the price for the same drink?

Barry, you keep on pushing this ridiculous question about EMT’s, medical cover etc. What’s the relevance? There’s a medical centre and first aid posts on site at all these gigs (usually ST. Johns or one of those), free water is provided as standard and there are event medical staff. Bottom line is if you get stabbed or keel over from a drugs overdose you are going out in an ambulance to the nearest hospital no matter what medical care is on site. That’s the place for you. If you read the reports there was around 60 people admitted (as far as I recall) to A&E over the weekend which is really insignificant number given that there was potentially 135,000 at the concerts. The medical services to be provided are advised by the HSE and in accordance with a code of practice.

I’m looking at the plan for Marlay Park which is half the capacity of the Phoenix Park and it has a two first aid posts, a medical centre and an appointed Medical Co-ordinator. It has 4 signed drinking water areas and water at the front of stage.

Okay brian I’ll play ball here, answer me this what makes it okay to allow entry to clearly overly intoxicated youths? I mean there were kids being held up by there mates going in the entrances…

Sure you couldn’t get into the junior disco back in the day if you smelled of booze, and this was in Tallaght. Pure idiotic way to manage things allowing people off their face into an arena area.

As if its MCD’s fault for a culture of drug fueled violence? Blame someone else before they ask questions about how our society operates.

MCD haven’t a shred of respect for the people who attend their events whether its people going to see Barbara Streisand or Swedish House Mafia, cattle would be treated better, they claim they can’t prevent certain behaviour but are excellent at preventing any alcohol coming in so as to ensure top revenues on the higher priced drinks inside. Does any other promoter have the same track record, security guards paid peanuts, inappropriate venues, terrible sound and the highest ticket prices in Europe. MCD should apologies to alot of people and start showing a modicum of respect for the people who attend their gigs.

Dead right Andrew. Their ability to organise these concerts in future needs to be seriously examined.

There was 2 exits

People commenting on this site, well the vast majority, need to tone it down.
You want a nanny state move to Saudi Arabia or somewhere.

This isnt the first such occurance :
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/07/11/1984s-lethal-mix-dylan-drink-and-ignorance/

Stop acting like it’s some catastrophe. A few bad eggs causes a problem. The people who over-dosed only have themselves to blame (well actually the government too for not legalizing, standardizing narcotics).

Maybe there could have been more Garda or security, but do you really want someone pulling you aside for ‘dancing too aggressively’ or such? Do you want metal detectors at the entrance and some lad groping your crotch looking for knives and such? How many freedoms do you want to give up to feel ‘safe’? How much more on a ticket price do you want for such ‘security’?

The country has country been full of scroats and filthbags for as long as I’ve lived. Nothing has changed. They were at the ‘disco’ when we were kids and they are in the clubs and pubs in town now. They also, surprisingly enough, go to outdoor dance gigs on a sunny Saturday.

The things that happened at that gig on Saturday, of which myself or the 25 or so people I know at it didn’t see any of, were terrible isolated incidents caused by a very small number of people.

If you don’t want people bringing in bottle of vodka and getting mashed before the gig, stop charging ridiculous prices and have a variety of drinks available. Money, generally the root of all problems.

Aidan, as a young person myself, i’m getting a bit f****ed off with having to put up with some of the trash we have in this country. People for whom violence is second nature, destruction of property is ritual, and who have no respect for others. I know it was a small number of 45,000 who were engaged in violence, but the general ill behaviour was widespread. So, no, I wont tone it down. We have a problem. I’d rather we fixed it. And the solution is not extra security, or banning alcohol or any of that. Its much, much deeper.

You won’t tone it down?
Dave solution please?
Or are you just going to be a loud mouth who has nothing but complaints?
Great people like you are, all voice and no ideas.

Tell you what, I’ve a REALLY good solution to these dirt bags.
Vigilantes.
Treat them as they treat others.
I think you’ll find this behaviour will be short term when they are getting the sh*t knocked out of them.

Form a group in your area.
See how long bad behaviour lasts and come back to me.
Cause the Garda can’t lock them all up and can’t be everywhere at once.
And I’ll be damned if I’ll live in a nanny state.

Only the odd individual that went round stabbing people??? Since when was it all right to stab someone? Stabbing kills! And I would consider it to be a dangerous & violent act that should never be brushed off so lightly!

MCD ate my homework.

LoL Brian, LoL!!!!!!

Damned if they don’t and accused of nanny statism if they do.

As should you and your ilk posting moronic generalisations not specifically dealing with the issue at hand.

and people like you are somewhat specific, perhaps

William…I’m sure your name isn’t Billy Magee..could you not have made up a more realistic one for the job at hand?

Well said. Pretty much what I posted but it was removed for some reason :/

MCD must be held accountable for letting a person into the concert venue with a deadly weapon. The searches carried out at the gates were not rigerous enough. MCD must also be held accountable for letting visibly intoxicated people inside the concert venue.

Sorry Paul, but no. Just because someone is drunk doesn’t mean they’re going on a rampage. Drunk people enter gigs all the time; difference is most don’t bring weapons with them.

I was at the Stone Roses, I had my bag fully searched, All pockets were patted down, my back was patted and my legs. I’m not thrilled about your encouragement’s to have my groin, ass felt up in future, wait in line for hours for a metal detector check and even more invasive body searches. When I go to a gig, it’s meant to be a fun night out and not an intrusive, drawn out DMZ check

Well Robert, I would rather get searched than stabbed.

Paul, if you don’t mind spending hours and hours in line every time you go to a gig then great, but I’ll have to assume you just don’t go to many shows. I go to several every month and I do not intend on going through airport security every time I head out because of one nut job.

It’s life, sh*t happens. We cannot bubble wrap the entire world in case we have a boo-boo. This over-liberal agenda of breast feeding adults if getting a little ridiculous. No amount of security will ever stop someone from harming others if that’s their intention. A guy could beat you to death with his bare hands, how do you pat down for that? And that’s the restrictions we’ll see then? Muscle guys having their arms cuffed at gigs?

What are you talking about ‘hours and hours’ waiting in line? bubble wrapping the world? Would you give over. The searches at the SHM gig were inadequate, many reported just a ‘pat on the chest’ some reported not being searched at all. Have you read these reports? MCD should be held responsible for that, being the organizers of the event. I never said I was in favour of ariport style security checks at gigs. A quick search for weapons takes minimal tim, is very effective if done by trained personell. You are obviously affiliated with MCD or something.

If a friend or family member of yours was injured I very much doubt you’d be saying ‘It’s life , shit happens’.

She’s home, safe and sound

The cork girl who went missing safe & well on Monday, and returned to her cobh by bus

She’s fine.

Mac Ready, she was found safe and well: http://www.thejournal.ie/cork-girl-missing-after-saturdays-phoenix-park-gig-514852-Jul2012/

wot clown is disliking the comments stating that she was found safe and sound surely thats a good thing

I’m sorry, what’s your argument? You’re just against companies making a profit yeah?

It came to a total of: none of your business.

Good man. Why bother posting if you’re not going to share your insights?

Also, what was the governments cut in all those cans and bottles being downed outside the venue??

Sorry Shane, thought you were the original commenter :)