Brooks on-off concert debacle dominates Twitter for 2014

Irish Water may be the issue which forced most people to take to the streets in protest during 2014, but it was a mere trickle compared to the virtual deluge Garth Brooks created on Twitter this year.

The country megastar’s on-off concert schedule in Croke Park was the most frequently trending Irish news story in 2014, according to Twitter’s Year in Review for Ireland.

While it can safely be said that Brooks let the country down, the Irishman who set the trend most over the last 12 months did so for all the right, albeit emotive, reasons.