Manager denies giving assurance on 5 Brooks gigs

The Dublin City manager has admitted he personally supported five Garth Brooks concerts but denied that assurance was given to Croke Park management that all the shows would be licensed.

Owen Keegan also told the Oireachtas transport committee that he would have resigned rather than not defend a judicial review of the decision to only grant three licences, as he stood over the process undertaken in reaching that decision.

He also revealed that of a sample of 200 submissions received by Dublin City Council in relation to the Brooks shows, 72 of them are suspect.