A major security operation is in place around Croke Park in Dublin this afternoon ahead of tonight's One Direction Concert.
A quarter of a million young fans will attend the boyband's gigs over the next three nights.
They'll take to the stagea, and they'll take to the stage at 8.15 tonight.
We are in! this is it! CROKE PARK ! Woohoo!! Hope the rain goes away, the stage is like an ice rink , slippy! As I just found out haha
— Niall Horan (@NiallOfficial) May 23, 2014
Concert goers are being warned to use public transport and not to queue up outside.
These young fans are very excited:Gates open at 5 o'clock this evening and Eamon Fox from MCD says fans will only be allowed to go where their ticket tells them to: