Garth Brooks sent country music fans into a frenzy when he announced he will return to Ireland next year to play a whopping ten concerts.
The American country superstar last performed in Ireland in September 2022, when he played five sold-out concerts at Dublin’s Croke Park, with more than 400,000 tickets sold.
EVOKE brings readers a breakdown of how much tickets will cost and when they will go on sale.
Where is Garth Brooks playing?
In 2026, Garth will begin at Boucher Road Playing Fields in Belfast on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 May, before moving to Pearse Stadium in Galway on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 May.
He will then perform at UPMC Nowlan Park in Kilkenny on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 June, followed by TUS Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 June.
The final two concerts will take place at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 June.
How much will tickets cost?
Concert promoter Aiken Promotions will be looking after Garth’s mammoth Irish stadium tour.
Peter Aiken of Aiken Promotions insisted tickets will start from €136.25 and that there will be ‘no dynamic pricing’.
Speaking to Oliver Callan on his RTÉ Radio 1 show, Peter said: ‘There will be none of that. There’ll be no pre-sales, no VIP tickets. None of that sort of stuff.
‘It’ll be €136.25 to stand on the pitch. We had a pit with what some people call a gold circle. We’re calling it a pit. That’ll be a section at the front of the stage for approximately 4,000 people.
‘But that’ll be the same price as the rest of the tickets, and then all the seated tickets are all one price. [They will] be €156.25, and then we also have a section for family tickets. There’ll be a section that’ll be reserved only for families, and we’re going to make that a non-alcohol zone.
‘Then we’ll also have the neurodivergent area, which we introduced a couple of years ago. We’re going to have that at every venue, and we’ll also have the normal wheelchair platform and stuff. So there’ll be six different tickets available.’
When will tickets go on sale?
Tickets for all 10 concerts go on sale on Thursday 12 November at 8am. There will be no presale.
Will there be a Dublin date announced?
No. Garth has decided to perform at venues outside of the capital after realising that only 20 percent of the 400,000 ticket sales came from Dublin when he last played Ireland at Croke Park in September 2022.
Peter said: ‘For this tour, it’s just going to be outside of Dublin this time. That’s what he wanted to do. He saw Ed Sheeran posters when he toured the whole of Ireland, and he’d seen what Bruce (Springsteen) did, and he said he’d love to do that.
‘That’s all how it really came about. Then he said to me when he was in Orlando, “let’s do it.” I thought, honestly, I thought even when it’s confirmed, I got an awful shock. I said, “Jesus, I better get going here.”‘
Why will Garth not be performing at a Dublin venue?
Peter explained why Garth won’t be playing at any venues in Dublin, despite selling out a record-breaking five nights in Croke Park back in September 2022.
He said: ‘He was aware of the ticket breakdown. You know, the ticket breakdown was for a normal big concert in Croke Park, you might be hitting 50 percent would be from Dublin, but this (for Garth’s concert) was just under 20 percent.
‘So he was aware of how popular he was (outside of Dublin), and how many tickets we sold in Galway and Limerick, and especially in Belfast… He was aware of it, and that’s how we picked the venues.’
