[Rashers]

I left the concert early to catch this train. However, in the end, IE held both this service and the Maynooth service for 30 mins. Due to the noise from the engines, it was impossible to hear the driver's announcements, so I rang Pearse street after 20 minutes. They advised the concert had went on longer then expected, so all DART/suburban trains were held to meet the demand. Sounds reasonable, even if I was 30 minutes late getting home.

When I was in Lansdowne road waiting on the 22.52 to Malahide, an unscheduled northbound DART to Howth arrived. There were no passengers on board, and this had been sitting at Sandymount for the previous 10 minutes. I reckon this had been due to pick up Northbound DART passengers from the concert, but it left empty from there.This was probably run through so as not to hold up the northbound services stuck behind it.
But I would imagine that the following DARTs were packed, if they had to let earlier ones go before the concert finished. I seen a northbound DART at Connolly at 23.45 that was fairly packed, even after it had discharged all it's Connolly passengers.
Seems to be mis communication between the promoters and IE.

On a similar note, I was getting a Greystones bound DART from Connolly at 18.45 approx. This a 4 carriage service and was packed. It left a significant number of irate concert goers/passengers at Pearse street. The next southbound service was not for 22 minutes, hence I think people felt they would miss some of the concert - they needed of worried. George was late coming on stage (around 20.30), and took a 20 min break @21.30!