ONE man who has seen the Garth Brooks fanaticism first hand in town is John McCarthy.

The Tralee man, who owns the B-Mobile shop in Dominick Street, is the only Ticketmaster agent in town and his shop was thronged with fans when the tickets went on sale months ago.

“It was absolutely crazy. You had hundreds of people queuing, some were camping two days before hand. We had the likes of Kanye West and Jay-Z but nothing compared to the demand for Garth Brooks,” he told TraleeToday.ie at the shop on Friday.

With the concerts now up in the air, he feels for the fans who are still in limbo.

“We’ve had people phoning, calling in, facebooking us…a lot of people were asking ‘can we get a refund?’ but at the moment it’s still not cancelled. The licence hasn’t been granted but they’re still trying to sort something out,” said John.

“There’s too many people involved with the GAA, the promoter, Dublin City Council, the Croke Park residents, Ticketmaster and even the Taoiseach throwing his spake in. It’s nuts. To be honest, five concerts was  a bit much but I thought they’d leave it off this time and make that situation a one-off  and they’d put something in writing to ensure it wouldn’t happen again,” he said.

“There are hundreds and hundreds of people we sold tickets to here in the shop, not to mind the people from town who bought them online. We had probably 500 or 600 people queuing outside the shop on both days we were selling the tickets, so those people are going to be very disappointed,” he said.

While we were there, Eoin Burns from Fenit called in. He bought two tickets for the Tuesday night as a present for his wife back in February.

“I got the tickets as a Valentine’s Day present for my wife but we hadn’t booked accommodation yet thankfully. The whole thing is a fiasco,” said Eoin.

A fiasco that still hasn’t been sorted out.