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IRISH POP BAND The Script is to put on two concerts in Dublin early next year for any staff working in the HSE, as well as those in the NHS in Northern Ireland.
Lead singer Danny O’Donoghue last week announced the band would put on a free concert for these workers to “show our appreciation for how hard you’ve been working over the past few weeks and will continue to do over the next few months”.
The first date announced was 9 February 2021 at the 3 Arena and tickets were available from earlier this evening. Due to the huge demand for the concert, the band announced it was adding another free show on 8 February 2021, with tickets available immediately.
These were also gone in less than 30 minutes and the band has said the response has been “overwhelming”.
the script 🌄🌑 / TwitterWow! Tickets for both shows for the HSE & NHS @3ArenaDublin went in less than 30 mins! The first night going in 3 mins.. 24,000 of ye!! Overwhelming!! We'll see all of you guys on Feb 8th and 9th. Thank you to all staff for your continued efforts, from the bottom of hearts 🙏🏻💚💙 pic.twitter.com/NdWhjX5SLh
— the script (@thescript) April 7, 2020
In his message to HSE and NHS staff last week, O’Donoghue had said the concert was not just for nurses and doctors, but also for staff like kitchen porters and cleaners, who are also doing important jobs in hospitals.
Each staff member could get two tickets for the concert and ticket-holders will be required to present their HSE or NHS ID cards when they arrive on the night.
“We’d love to say thank you so much on behalf of The Script, our family, our friends and the nation,” O’Donoghue said.
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Well done lads
@Donal Connell: if they were playing in my back garden I’d close the blinds
Over 27000 in the queue at 7.15pm .
They weren’t healthcare workers.
The real heroes were on 14hr shifts and got no tickets.
Farce .
@Eug J Cummins: Very unfair comment.
@K: I concur !
@Eug J Cummins:
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@Eug J Cummins: how do you know they weren’t on a break from shift to try do it? Or they asked a family member to do it for them?
@Eug J Cummins: they had to have HSE I’d and photographic too. Also has to be shown on night. Very unfair comment
This should be moved to Croke Park as thousands of HSE staff & frontline works were left disappointed today!
@Joe Bloggs: love croke park in February
@Joe Bloggs: In all fairness there’s no venue that would hold the amount of demand for these tickets.. There will be people inevitably disappointed but happy for those that got their tickets and fair play to the Script for doing such a fantastic deed.
Might not be fashionable but most hard working people I have seen during this are the supermarket workers. Nice to see them get some of the limelight .
@Mr Wilde: What limelight? Or are you being sarcastic
Christ, have the healthcare professionals not suffered enough already.
Fair play to the lads
Great idea
Farcical that tickets could be purchased by the general public with only a requirement to show ID on the night. I just hope that all attendees are those who the gig are for. Are the 3Arena actually going to police it?
@Mark Brown: Even if these people don’t get in without ID it still means someone who deserved a ticket missed out. Funny setup really.
@Mark Brown: that’s not true.
Wouldn’t it be great there was a live aid type Concert as in gigs all over the world with free tickets for all the front line workers and everyone watching being able to donate to all the worthwhile causes and show their appreciation for all involved
Wow – first BandAid LiveAid, SelfAid – and now CovAid-20 – what a script. Well done lads.
Fantastic gesture.Easy to check ids on the night if doors open early.
No room for naysayers here.
@David Glynn: precisely. Its really sad to see the begrudgers out when the lads are doing a good deed. Some ppl will never be happy.
Haha. The Script. Get it?
(Prescription/healthcare workers)
Well, I think it’s funny/ironic (whatever)
They want better pay and conditions. Not a round of applause.
Can’t say I’m a fan, but they are doing what they can. And to that I say fair play
Thank you so much
Every hospital, nursing home should have been allocated certain amount of tickets. Would have been a fairer distribution of this brilliant offer from the script.
Who are these guys on a cheap self promotional run . Haven’t the general public suffered enough without having their hearing further damaged from such rubbish !
@Gerry Mc Carthy: Or you could just ignore the story and move on without the negativity. Clearly enough people valued the gesture. Nobody’s asking you to go, or to listen. It would actually take less effort to just ignore it.
@Gerry Mc Carthy: what sort of a comment is that? Are you putting your hands in your pocket and personally treating the frontline workers to a bit of a break for one eve. NO.
@Andi O Donoghue: I am totally supportive of front line workers . I am totally against non entities cashing in with some absurd gesture to promote themselves !
Really hope people who got tickets will have to show proof of their jobs..
The coronavirus could still have a huge part in the script next February.Hope not.
The Corona’s should follow suit
So we will have a vaccine by February next? And it’ll be grand to have large events?
@John Walsh: well maybe not but I. Sure provisions will be made in the event of that happening. So for now, maybe just take it as a nice gesture
Nice gesture from the Script. It wouldnt surprise me if other bands do likewise…not to be outdone. I bet Bono is kicking himself that he didnt think of it first! Anyway…I hope the essential services people have a great night and can look back with satisfaction on a job well done.
So they think that this will all be over in February?
This is a lovely gesture, but I’m afraid it may be a little optimistic.
At the current rate of infection we will not be at a point where we will have herd immunity and it’s unlikely a vaccine will be rolled out at that point either. If contact tracing was successful we could perhaps have rid the island of Covid 19, but contact tracing has not been very successful yet.
I hope I’m wrong but I think we’re going to have Covid 19 spikes for a while to come. They won’t keep the lock down going continuously, no economy can take that, the lock down will end before then. This will not make it safer in a crowded place, let’s face it these are not the people that we want to be infected or spreading infection.
@Davis Payne: if it’s not over, which it may not be… the lads will I’m sure postpone till safe . They are not stupid.
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