It is set to be a busy weekend in Dublin with two Bruce Springsteen concerts in Croke Park (Friday and Sunday) and the Republic of Ireland facing the Netherlands in a Euro 2016 warm-up game on Friday night at the Aviva stadium.
An extra 120,000-130,000 people are expected in the city tonight and gardaí have asked people to use public transport where possible.There was relief earlier this week when the planned Luas strike on Friday was called off.
Springsteen will be onstage on Friday at about 7pm in front of 80,000 fans, with no support act. The first date of his European tour, in Barcelona last week, lasted 3½ hours. Gates will be open from 5pm and no queuing will be allowed around Croke Park. Organisers have advised people to add least 1½ hours to normal journey time.
Buses and trains will run special services and the Dart will run extra services tonight.
Additional services will run to Greystones, Howth, Longford, Maynooth, Dundalk and Drogheda after the concerts.
Iarnród Éireann has said priority would be given to train customers who had booked their tickets online as the service would be "extremely busy".An extra service from Dublin Heuston to Galway will run at 12.30am tonight and Sunday tonight. A train will also depart Heuston for Cork – with a connection to Limerick – at 12.40am both nights. Buses will run extra and late night services.
Parking warning
About 40,000 fans are expected to travel to the Aviva stadium this evening for the Republic of Ireland vs the Netherlands game, which kicks off at 7.45pm and is expected to finish before 10pm. There are limited on-street parking spaces and gardaí have warned disc parking would be “rigidly enforced”. They have also warned improperly or illegally parked vehicles will be removed.
There are 100 disabled parking spaces in the stadium car park, which can only be accessed from Herbert Road.
There will be road closures around the stadium from 3.15pm on Friday.
