{"id":217958,"date":"2025-12-30T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217958\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T11:06:07","slug":"how-1987s-the-joshua-tree-had-irish-diplomats-scrambling-for-u2-tickets-across-the-us-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/217958\/","title":{"rendered":"How 1987&#039;s The Joshua Tree had Irish diplomats scrambling for U2 tickets across the US &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMic0FVX3lxTE5wWXU0WFhoNjBRQWJuZWh3S3lQdDIyaHRkS3BLdjRWOTZJMWdQUkY1eV9jQlgxUVRYMk1jRGlDYlh6LVNGY2IybjhoekdxS0dJR2tudGNtZWFhVzVZRnYxYm9rVTZXeWU1UUItV1Y3Z2RTcXc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How 1987&#8217;s The Joshua Tree had Irish diplomats scrambling for U2 tickets across the US<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTE9uazI4VGNndlZwZUIyNm8zRHB6MTZMVEs2Y0JtYXZVWjNZMlJpdEtjS1dEQ0l2Nl8ydWZtRmJub2pUSHpwaEwweTFrR0tpeFBCZlhZR2M5SXhFZTBpelJvWjNGc0dvd3ZSUXRiUFFmTmQ1WngxYlVVMW9odw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Embarrassing situation&#8217; over limited U2 tickets in 1987<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipwFBVV95cUxNV2FTa3J5cHFsejA3WV9Qd3pLN1dlNWVzSGdXQURHdjRyRlc2NGMwUmRxc3pySGc0UjROdi0tZlZRNlc0UU5wODM5N3hmcU9xWWFYcE1FanBBbkV6MnFWdEYtaDNibXhTS1pxQmhMTi16VnBIUmI1bDVQQVJiUy02MFhLVjhzRk03NFVIVXZnWGFJaTBBOGo5cFU3WEJIUVhOSHFUUDYwRQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U2 U-turn put Irish diplomats in \u2019embarrassing situation\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BreakingNews.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi6AFBVV95cUxNYnRQd3J3emlmQmsweXFtdHZmTmNUaGxNeG5ESUZLeXduVkIzQzk0UEJvQ2FOVTlEY3VZMjNWUWZRdjNzQXZuNDMzMlhGNDA5bTZqM19oTnJVOFBjVG1Ncl91OXlXc2hiR1h4N0ZsR19seUZZbnVWR2RzaS1tUEVxTjNSeGVMNjVxbTdLUGZIdnpKZlhEb1NXQ0VjNGl3UzZIdURZTFZtcXpzbUpYVlRwR3Ezeks4OGJyaUI0WTNLNWxadGY3Q191REFtcEhOdnNEWGFFNGZ3bEZmbzdiOWlXUFJLX0RON2Ji?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Irish diplomats left red-faced after U2 cut short their ticket allocation for 1987 Joshua Tree tour<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How 1987&#8217;s The Joshua Tree had Irish diplomats scrambling for U2 tickets across the US&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal&#8216;Embarrassing situation&#8217; over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,113192,60,278,110823,37875,37876],"class_list":["post-217958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-into-the-arms-of-america","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-state-papers","tag-the-joshua-tree","tag-with-or-without-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}