Overview

• Oasis opened their Dublin run on August 16 before roughly 80,000 fans, featuring on-stage Irish tributes and singalongs of classics such as “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger.”
• Gates for tonight’s second Croke Park show open at 5 pm with Richard Ashcroft and Cast as support acts, Oasis due on stage around 8:15 pm and a 10:30 pm curfew in place.
• Promoter MCD has banned queuing or camping outside the stadium and arranged extra DART, bus and train services to handle more than 160,000 attendees over two nights.
• Ireland’s Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority continue investigations into the tour’s dynamic-pricing ticket model after fan backlash.
• Economic analysts forecast the Dublin dates will generate over €60 million locally, while health officials urge UV protection and monitoring for a newly emerged Covid-19 variant.