Garth Brooks: Come see the show elsewhere

The Garth Brooks national meltdown is either over or about to get worse — depending on whether you’d staked a summer of happiness on getting to a Garth gig at Croke Park.

Alas, the bad news for the 400,000 fans - or almost one tenth of the population - to buy the €60 a head tickets - is that the warbler in Wranglers is not going to grace these shores anytime soon.

However he does love us and wants the Irish to come to concerts anywhere around the world where the rules of licensing shows are less stringent than in the Emerald Isle.