Excitement and nostalgia filled the air outside Croke Park as Oasis fans gathered ahead of tonight's much-anticipated gig.
Darren and Orla Gray from Waterford, sporting matching striped tops and bucket hats outside Croke Park, said it was 29 years since they first saw Oasis perform in Cork. To be part of the reunion, they said, would be "biblical."
"It's amazing to see them come together again. We just thought we would never see it. So we’re here today and it’s just fantastic. Biblical, yeah, it’s biblical."
Carol Cantwell from Kilkenny, who was sitting outside the Bridge Tavern Pub in Summerhill with her husband Fergal and daughter Chloe, became emotional and wiped away tears as she spoke about what it meant to be at the concert.
"I’m so excited. I’m actually not sad, I’m really excited. It’s my youth, it’s everything, it’s like the anthem for our lives."
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Her daughter Chloe explained what it means to the family: "We speculated for so long as to whether the day would ever come when they’d get back together, and here it is."
The family paid over €1,200 for tickets, but Fergal said he believes it was worth it to see the band that defined their youth.
"Sixty seconds to decide whether we wanted to pay €420 a ticket, and I said, well, we’re not going to see this again. Unless they tour next year, and then I’ll go mad altogether."
Two young men from Malahide, dressed in tricolour balaclavas, bucket hats and John Lennon-style glasses, said they were Kneecap fans but not too young to appreciate Oasis’s musical legacy.
"Oasis is cross-generational, it’s everything. It surpasses age and time itself."
Stiofán Ó Bróin from Drumcondra had his 16-month-old son Setanta Sé on his shoulders, both dressed in matching Oasis T-shirts and bucket hats on Jones Road. He won’t be at tonight’s gig.
"I tried my best to get a ticket for Dublin here, but I didn’t get one. So I’m going to have to listen to it outside the stadium, unfortunately."
