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Why are concert tickets so expensive?

Pop star Harry Styles is coming back to Dublin next summer with standing tickets in Croke Park ra...

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06.50 11 Sep 2026


Why are concert tickets so expensive?


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06.50 11 Sep 2026


Pop star Harry Styles is coming back to Dublin next summer with standing tickets in Croke Park ranging from €142 all the way to €267.

He follows many other concerts in Ireland asking for increasingly higher prices, but what’s behind these costs? Anton asked Michael Murphy, Lecturer at the Institute of Art Design and Technology and music industry expert.


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