Oasis sell out Croke Park after half a million fans queue online for tickets costing over €400

Tickets for Oasis went on general sale at 8am on Saturday morning but anyone hoping to secure themselves standing room or even a seat in Croke Park next summer simply by showing up on time is likely to have been disappointed.

The prices of some tickets left many users horrified with concert promoters MCD deploying a so-called dynamic, or in-demand, pricing model which saw some standing tickets more than double in price over the course of the first three hours of the sale.

By midday, there were still tickets up for grabs, although four standing tickets were priced at close to €2,000 when the service charges were added to the total cost with other so-called premium ticket packages costing even more than that.

And by the early afternoon Ticketmaster had confirmed that all the tickets that had been released for the two concerts had been sold although it did dangle the prospect of tickets selling in the future and encouraged fans to “check back later as more may be released”.

Seconds after 8am, there were hundreds of thousands of people wai...
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