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Christy Burke and City Manager Owen Keegan. Asking Mr Aiken for advice on how to proceed, Brooks added: ‘I cannot begin to tell you how badly my heart is breaking right now.’ However, he again insisted he could not play just three out of five concerts announced for Croke Park later this month. The Lord Mayor had called on Mr Kenny to directly contact the singer’s management in a last-gasp attempt to resolve the debacle. Mr Keegan, Mr Aiken and the GAA have been summoned before the Oireachtas Transport Committee about the fiasco, estimated to cost the economy more than €50million. In the Dáil, the cancelled concerts dominated leaders’ questions, with Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin calling for emergency legislation to be passed to rescue the July 25-29 events.
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Wax off: Lisa Jameson places a sign beside the head of Garth Brooks wax model on a shelf in the gift shop of Dublin’s Wax Museum, as Taoiseach Enda Kenny convened an emergency meeting to rescue the concerts PA
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THE Taoiseach convened a crisis meeting last night to try to turn around the Garth Brooks debacle, as the country star himself said he would play in Ireland if the ‘powers that be’ gave the go-ahead for all five nights. In a letter to promoter Peter Aiken, the singer said his ‘heart is breaking’ after cancelling the 400,000 sold-out extravaganza when Dublin City Council only allowed three nights. ‘If you tell me, “Garth, thanks but it’s over,” I will cease my efforts and bring our people and gear back to the States,’ he told Mr Aiken. But Brooks promised to wait until the last second to turn the ships carrying his equipment back around, ‘if you think for any reason that the “powers that be” can fix this’. The latest twist in the controversy came as Taoiseach Enda Kenny contacted industrial relations chief Kieran Mulvey to set up a meeting last night between Dublin’s Lord Mayor
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