Updated 10.30

Garth Brooks has rejected a plan that would have seen him play his five cancelled Croke Park concerts over three days instead of five.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke, however, says he believes a compromise will be reached and the concerts will go ahead:

After negotiations between Peter Aiken of Aiken Promotions and the Chief Executive of Dublin City Council Owen Keegan yesterday, the proposal of five concerts was put to the singer. The plan would have seen an extra matinee performance staged on both the Saturday and Sunday, to replace the Monday and Tuesday night concerts that have been denied an event license. 

Within hours the singer responded by saying two daytime shows "cannot possibly compare" to a five-night straight run, and that the show was designed for the evening.

His publicist Nancy Seltzer said: "To treat 160,000 people differently than all the rest who will be seeing the show the way it was meant and created is wrong.

"He does not understand why it is once again put upon him to treat people less than they deserve to be treated and he still returns to why did they allow five shows to be sold and all these people to be disappointed.

"It is not his decision; it is, with the greatest of respect, the city council's."

Following Brooks' statement, Aiken Promotions also issued a brief statement saying the option of matinees on Saturday and Sunday was not feasible.

However, Dublin City Council says the offer remains on the table.

Earlier, Brooks, 52, offered to "swim, fly or crawl" to Ireland for a meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny to try and let the five shows go ahead.

"We're still under a cloud but I hope joy is coming," he said in a press conference streamed online from Nashville, Tennessee.

"I will do whatever it takes except cancelling on people. If the Prime Minister himself wants me to, I will crawl, swim of fly over this weekend and sit on my knees and beg."

Brooks discussed the situation at length during the press conference: