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28th August 2024
01:24pm BST
The GAA will make over €2 million in rent from Oasis' concerts in Croke Park next summer.
Earlier this week, Noel and Liam Gallagher announced that they have reunited after a 15 year hiatus from the band and will play 14 shows next July and August across the UK and Ireland.
The comeback tour will kick off in Cardiff's Principality Stadium on July 4.
After two nights the Welsh capital, the brothers will make their way to their hometown of Manchester where they will play four nights at Heaton Park.
That will be followed by four nights at London's Wembley stadium, two nights at Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium on August 8 and 9.
Their much-anticipated reunion run is scheduled to finish up with two nights at the home of Gaelic games on 16 and 17 August.
While Oasis themselves are set to rake in almost €15m in ticket sales for their two Dublin dates, the GAA can also look forward to a juicy rent payment of over €2 million.
Oasis will tour the UK & Ireland in summer 2025!
— Oasis (@oasis) August 27, 2024
Tickets go on sale this Saturday 31st August.
IRE 🎟️ 8am IST
UK 🎟 9am BST
Full information 👉https://t.co/EtNuE2Hx6b
*These dates will be the band’s exclusive European appearances. pic.twitter.com/C5I0NVWS68
The GAA make over €1 million in rent fees for each concert that gets held at Croke Park.
The organisation is set to earn almost €4.5m from Coldplay's four night run this weekend.
The 80,000 fans expected to attend will pay €86.50 plus booking fee per ticket.
As the scramble for tickets this weekend will no doubt end in heartbreak for some fans due to the sheer demand, the issue of accommodation in the Irish capital will also be a major stumbling block.
While, at the time of writing, there are still options for those visiting Dublin that weekend, prices for hotels on the Saturday have already surpassed €400 with just three under that price on Booking.com.
It’s a similar affair for the Sunday night, with just one hotel available to book under €400. It also indicates that 95% of places to stay in the capital are booked up already.
Availability is also quickly decreasing, with there only being 26 available places to stay on Booking for Saturday and 34 properties for Sunday.
A similar situation happened following the announcement of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concerts in Dublin earlier this year.
Hotel room prices around the city skyrocketed with no rooms available for under €350 on the dates of the gigs
Raising the issue in the Dáil at the time, Independent TD Thomas Pringle described the figures as “rampant price gouging”.
Hoteliers were blasted for exponentially increasing prices prior to tickets for Swift’s concerts even being released on general sale.
Mr. Pringle also noted that it was not just the city’s hotel owners who were culpable of price gouging, adding that one landlord was charging €20,000 for a two-bedroom apartment for the same weekend.
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