*Senator Timmy Dooley (FF). Photograph: Joe Buckley

CLARE SENATOR Timmy Dooley (FF) has requested an investigation into Oasisโ€™ ticket sales at Croke Park.

Senator Dooley has said he has wrote to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) โ€œrequesting an investigation of the ticket sales stunt used for the Oasis concertsโ€.

Dooley commented, โ€œit now seems that bands and their agents have taken off where the touts have left offโ€. He called on the GAA to โ€œset rulesโ€ for the use of Croke Park.

Huge fanfare greeted last weekโ€™s major announcement by Oasis that they were to play seventeen shows in Ireland and the United Kingdom. The first is due to take place in Cardiff in July 2025 followed by nights in Manchester where the band was formed in 1991, London, Edinburgh and two dates in Dublin.

All the tickets in Britain sold out in around ten hours on Saturday, after many fans spent the day in online queues.

Many Irish fans were left disappointed that they did not get one of 160,000 tickets on sale over two dates in August 2025 in Croke Park.

Tickets were advertised as being priced from โ‚ฌ86.50, subject to service charge and limited to four per transaction. However, people reported the price for standing tickets more than doubling from around โ‚ฌ176 on pre-sale to over โ‚ฌ400.

According to the CCPC, there are “legitimate concerns around the consumer experiences” of buying tickets for Oasis. “We are actively reviewing the situation and we will consider all options to ensure consumer protection law is followed,” the CCPC said in a statement.

Ticketmaster said that all prices “are set by the tour”. “All ticket prices, including Platinum, In Demand, and VIP, are set by the tour. Promoters and artists set ticket prices. Prices can be either fixed or market-based. Market-based tickets are labelled as ‘Platinum’ or ‘In Demand’.”

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