Oasis tickets controversy: ‘People say it was better in the old days. It really wasn’t’

There are many people who remain almost completely unaware of Live Nation despite its deep roots here.

The US entertainment giant owns Ticketmaster, the platform responsible for the sale of up to 90 per cent of tickets in Ireland along with MCD, the State’s largest concert promoter and the one bringing Oasis to Dublin next summer.

Live Nation also operates the 3Arena, the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, the Gaiety and the Olympia and is behind Electric Picnic and Longitude. Through its subsidiaries it has strong relationships with the GAA, the IRFU and the FAI.

But it is not Live Nation or even MCD in the firing line over the latest ticketing controversy engulfing the nation, and not for the first time. Ticketmaster has become the touchstone for the anger of hundreds of thousands of...
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