{"id":250089,"date":"2026-01-17T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250089\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T20:32:09","slug":"music-promoter-pat-egan-on-bringing-bob-marley-to-ireland-we-sold-about-20000-tickets-in-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/250089\/","title":{"rendered":"Music promoter Pat Egan on bringing Bob Marley to Ireland: \u2018We sold about 20,000 tickets in advance\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThe promoter on the \u2018legendary\u2019 gig in Dalymount Park in 1980\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bob Marley at Dalymount Park in 1980. Photo: Eddie Mallin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marley Dalymount 1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bob Marley at Dalymount Park in 1980. Photo: Eddie Mallin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Born in 1946, Pat Egan grew up in Dublin\u2019s north inner city\u2019s Eccles Place. His father disappeared to England. \u201cI never met him,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Egan, who left school at 13, did, however, meet and become friends with The Hollies, The Who, Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, Billy Connolly and Eric Clapton, putting on concerts in Ireland once upon a time. \u201cRory was a unique guy,\u201d Egan says. \u201cHe lived to play and drank too much whiskey.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The promoter on the \u2018legendary\u2019 gig in Dalymount Park in 1980 Bob Marley at Dalymount Park in 1980.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,6992],"class_list":["post-250089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250089","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=250089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}