Material girl nets €2m for Slane gig

FANS of material girl Madonna spent almost €12,000 a minute yesterday on tickets for her concert in Slane this summer.

The country went mad for Madonna as fans paid out over €3.5 million in the first five hours of ticket sales. Eager fans had to fork out €88.50 per ticket.

Anxious to prove they were ecstatic about Esther as Madonna calls herself these days her supporters snapped up over half of the 80,000 tickets on sale for her first-ever Irish concert at the Co Meath venue on Sunday, August 29.