Energetic Springsteen puts music and fans first as Madonna slips up

ARGUABLY the lowest point of Tuesday evening came when Madonna dropped her trousers.

Fortunately, she had some underwear on for her bit of mooning to the Lansdowne Road crowd at her concert. There were some cheers from her diehard fans, such appears to be their devotion, but most of us yawned as the pictures were displayed on the two giant screens on either side of the stage. A poor concert was not getting any better. This was not what we had come for.

There was a time when I probably would have cracked a lewd smile at the sight of Madonna’s ass. But I was younger then, and so was she. Now, before anyone wants to accuse me of ageism, or of becoming a grumpy old fart myself (having just turned 46), let me say this: The 53-year-old Madonna appears to have a very fine, toned and shapely set of buttocks, a backside that any woman would envy, and most men admire, irrespective of age. But so what? We went to see a concert, not her arse. There’s a time and a place, Madge, and a soaking wet night in Dublin wasn’t it.