OUR LETTER TO GARTH BROOKS Dear Garth First, I would like to apologise for those shower up in Dublin City Council for refusing to allow the last two concerts. I think they are just ‘Shameless’ or maybe a touch of ‘The Fever’, maybe we should just ‘blame it all on their roots’. Whatever, I’m sure someone has ‘Friends in low places’ who can straighten them out. As for the residents not being able to get out of their homes, sure we have people here in the parish living up bad boreens who have not seen the light of day for the best part of 20 years. I don’t see what they are complaining about. Anyway Garth, if you go ahead with the other three concerts in Croke Park, we here, in Stradbally GAA Club would be willing to facilitate you for the two other concerts. Sure we are a great bunch down here altogether for getting big things done in a short space of time. We are well in with the local Co Council so there would be no problem whatsoever with planning etc – the old nod and the wink, you know yourself. Sure we have a great set-up here altogether, a lovely clubhouse and the most wonderful pitch you could imagine. Now, we are not quite as big as Croke Park, but at the moment we are going to develop our second pitch and I’ll tell you something Garth, we will be in the big boys league then. Actually Garth, we need to level the pitch but we were thinking that if we left in the 160,000 fans that you would be bringing with you into that pitch, they would do the job for us. Sure we would kill two birds with the one stone. I tell you Garth, the brains in this club, never stop working. We would erect a big marquee, sure that would be no bother at all, Dermot O’Brien would have that up in half an hour. Maruice Lannon and Freddy McGuckian will look after the stage, rest assured, it will be a once off. Our canteen facilities are second to none – all your dietary requirements would be well catered for by Helen, Breda and Cess our resident kitchen supervisors, sure the ham sandwiches are to die for. John Whelan said he would bring down a chip van too, a great man for the sausages and chips is John. You would have the use of our state of the art dressing rooms, we specialise in cold showers – just the thing after a hard night on the stage. Litter control would be managed by the local Tidy Towns Committee, this would be carried out with military precision – they are lethal with recycling bags, sure didn’t I nearly end up in one myself after a session in Whelans one day. You might want to bring a few of them big trucks with a bit of equipment – no worries there, Noel Costello will have the double gates open for ye, just drive right in. Eoin Cunningham will be on site to connect ye up to the electricity and we’ll all hope that tomorrow will come after that. Virgil Power will sort ye out for the big screens, sure he’s done it all before for Teddy Barry, actually Teddy and Cathal said they would do the support for you so that’s sorted, sure they will have the crowd going in no time. Traffic control and parking will be no problem at all, sure Tom Cunningham is always good to give the big field across the road, sure buses, cars, tractors and bikes could all go in there. John Sheehan and Billy Fitz will be in charge of traffic management, sure that won’t be any bother at all to them, they are well used to it – you would want to see the volume of traffic in and out of the village on County Final Day, sure your outfit would only be in the penny halfpenny place compared to it. Now, if you want transport down yourself Garth, our Chairman, Pat Fennell said he would go and collect you. Now Garth, that would be an experience in itself, probably a hair raising one but sure you could have a few quick ones in the Cove Bar after the journey to settle the nerves. The only thing is, Pat dos’nt like driving in the city so we were thinking you could hop on the Luas out to Tallaght and he would collect you somewhere there. Just remember to keep an eye on your wallet there, a lot of cowboys around and you could end up in the river too. If you are worried about the bar facilities, I tell you have no fear. John and Breda will have all that under control, there is no crowd that will get them panicked, it’s a delight to see how they can throw out the pints and shorts and them pina colado things. I suppose you would want to sell a few T-shirts and CDs, well Grainne Costolloe would be the woman for the job there, a great girl she is, great to sell the auld stuff you know, you can be sure she will have a great team in place, I think she is planning a Moore St theme so it should be great gas. Now Garth, another bit of news, sure aren’t we after getting a bit of a grant – to develop the second pitch. Now that should come through before you would be coming so we will get on to our man with the chequebook here – John Dunphy, a sound fella and sure I’m sure we could come up with a few bob to put in a brown envelope, but keep that under your hat for the time being. Sure we might throw in a Stradbally jersey as well, I’ll get the Brick himself to sign it. You could wear it on stage. Now Garth, if you have any queries, rest assured that there is someone here who will be able to answer them. We would be delighted to have you and sure someone would give you a bed for the few nights. Don’t worry about that at all, Richard Hickey said he would’nt see you stuck. So all we need now Garth is the nod from you, we are ready to roll here, sure we can hear ‘the thunder roll ‘ already. Sure let us know what you think and until we hear from you ‘we aint going down until the sun comes up’. Yours sincerely, Ann Navin Secretary Stradbally GAA Club
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:01:42 +0000
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