Shatter: Park gig promoter must apologise

Security at the controversial weekend concert in Dublin’s Phoenix Park may have been more focused on driving up the promoters’ profits than protecting those who attended, Alan Shatter has said.

The justice minister suggested security personnel may have concentrated on preventing people bringing in drink so as to ensure more alcohol was bought at the concert, so that the “commercial benefit” to promoters from the alcohol being sold at the concert was not reduced.

By contrast, not enough had been done to tackle disorder, he suggested.