VIDEO: Garth Brooks says he's "100% willing" to return to Ireland for Croke Park gigs
Here we go again... 👨🌾🚜
Last updated 12th Jun 2018
It is hard to believe it's been four years since the infamous Croke Park Garth Brooks ticket fiasco.
The 56-year-old 'Friends In Low Places' star has reignited hopes for an Irish tour following comments made at a country festival in Nashville.
Speaking during a Q&A, he described it as one of the saddest moments in his music career after an Irish fan named Karen asked if he would return to Ireland to perform a gig.
"I will tell you this, I believe that things that start should finish. I have 100% made the opportunity available to the people that make the decision in Ireland to get those shows back up and get them running again."
"When it comes to Ireland, first of all, when that cancellation happened, it was probably the most devastating thing that ever happened in my career. That’s probably the saddest moment of my musical career — what happened in Dublin."
"That happened probably after the coolest moment in my musical career — selling 400,000 tickers in one city, that’s very sweet."
"To have to refund all those people their money, it broke my heart. Not being allowed to play all five, I had to pick two of the five to cancel and I said screw that, I’m not going to do that to those people. It was either all or none, when it became none, it was like come over here again and I’ve been lucky to see the Irish flag at every concert that we do and so I thank them for travelling."
The legendary country star's five Irish gigs were cancelled in July 2014 after authorities would only permit three concerts in Croke Park, for which 400,000 tickets were sold.
Having made $60 million in the past year, Garth Brooks came in at No. 1 on FORBES' World's Highest Paid Country Music Stars of 2017.
Watch this space, over to you Croker.