Following the Garth Brooks concert Croke Park debacle, last year is likely to be a year Aiken Promotions would want to quickly forget.

One of Ireland’s top music promoters has expressed frustration at the slow pace of reform around the state’s concert licensing laws.

This year may be one that Aiken Promotions will want to forget about quickly, what with the Garth Brooks concerts debacle, but new figures show its UK arm recorded profits of over €230,000 last year.

It was a tough summer for music promoter Peter Aiken who was at the centre of the Garth Brooks concert fiasco.

The Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications will meet again this morning to discuss the Garth Brooks concert debacle.

The Chief Executive of Dublin City Council says the decision to grant licences for just three Garth Brooks concerts was "appropriate, balanced and reasonable".

The newly appointed Environment Alan Kelly has intervened in the Garth Brooks concerts row.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has described country superstar Garth Brooks’ decision to pull out of a comeback special expected to pump millions into the country’s recovering economy this month as a shock to the system.

The promoter of Garth Brooks Croke Park concerts says the singer “won’t back down” from his pledge to play five concerts or none.

Lana Del Ray, Bob Dylan and Imelda May will join the Live at the Marquee series of concerts in Cork city this summer.

GIG WISE: You may have missed the news released just before Christmas that Longitude will return to Marlay Park in Dublin on Jul 18-20, with confirmed acts including Disclosure and Ben Howard.

Bruce Springsteen, with the full E Street Line Band line up, will bring his Wrecking Ball Weekender World Tour to a dramatic conclusion at Nowlan Park, Kilkenny, next summer.

He’s still the Boss — at least when it comes to selling concert tickets.

MUSIC legend Tom Jones will set pulses racing at Cork’s Live at the Marquee summer concert series.

Blondie fans will not get to see them on stage in Cork this summer as they will no longer be appearing.

THOMOND PARK has hit a second concert jackpot with confirmation yesterday that Rod Stewart will perform there on July 4.

The President of the High Court, Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan, has said the Office of Public Works should disclose to MCD Promotions the original bid by Aiken Promotions Ltd for the Rolling Stones gig in Phoenix Park, which was cancelled last month.