Dance acts could face Phoenix Park ban

Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald has suggested that dance acts may no longer be allowed to play in Dublin’s Phoenix Park after revealing she knows one of the people stabbed at last weekend’s controversial event.

Her comments came as her government colleague, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn, said concert-goers should be scanned for weapons; Justice Minister Alan Shatter said organisers MCD should apologise for the events of last weekend; and backbench Labour TD Eamonn Maloney demanded that MCD be “arrested”.

Nine people were stabbed at the Saturday concert headlined by Swedish House Mafia, with two people who attended dying from suspected drugs overdoses and numerous arrests being made for public order and other offences.