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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Roisin Cullen

Garth Brooks fans urinating in street leaves Croke Park residents fuming after gigs

Dublin residents are furious after some Garth Brooks fans have used their street as a toilet after the country music star's Croke Park gigs last weekend.

Some concert goers making their way back from the stadium have reportedly been spotted urinating on Sherrard Street, much to the horror of local families. Plants in a garden near Croke Park were also "uprooted and shoved through a letterbox."

Chair of Sherrard Pride of Place, Lynn Hooper said that residents have had enough with two gigs still left to go. She said: "I'm fuming. I requested toilets two weeks before the concerts started.

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"Our street is always used as a toilet, constantly. Then we have the rubbish as well. The council put a barrel at the top of the road for the bins but on Saturday the guards stopped people from drinking past our street. So everyone ended up congregating on our street drinking.

"We were kind of acting like marshals on the street. One of the residents was offering his toilet to people, complete strangers so that they wouldn't go on the street.

"We need more than one barrel of a bin. It was totally full, overflowing. There were bottles and all on the street. I have been saying that the toilets are needed at our end.

"We have been asking for this for GAA matches as well. Our street is free parking and all of them park on our street. Before they get into their cars to do their long drive home, they urinate on the street.

"It's ridiculous. It's absolutely disgraceful."

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