Garth Brooks Skips Dublin on 2027 Ireland Tour Amid Lawsuit

Country music star Garth Brooks will skip Dublin during his 2027 Ireland tour.

The 64-year-old singer announced a 10-night run across five Irish cities.

Belfast, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Cork are all on the schedule.

Dublin is not.

The tour begins at Boucher Road Playing Fields in Belfast on Friday, May 21 and Saturday, May 22, 2027.

It moves to Pearse Stadium in Galway on Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May 30.

Then to UPMC Nowlan Park in Kilkenny on Friday, June 4 and Saturday, June 5.

Then to TUS Gaelic Grounds in Limerick on Friday, June 11 and Saturday, June 12.

The final two shows will be at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork on Friday, June 18 and Saturday, June 19.

Tickets go on sale Thursday, November 12, 2026, at 8 a.m.

Brooks last performed in Ireland in September 2022.

He played five sold-out concerts at Dublin’s Croke Park.

More than 400,000 tickets were sold for those shows.

Those were his first Irish concerts in 25 years.

He had previously performed at Croke Park in 1997.

The 2022 run came eight years after a planned five-night stand at the same stadium was canceled in 2014.

Dublin City Council had granted licenses for only three of the five concerts.

Brooks canceled the entire run in response.

Now, for 2027, the capital is absent from the itinerary.

Peter Aiken, of Aiken Promotions, addressed the decision on Radio 1’s Oliver Callan show.

He explained that Brooks was aware of the ticket breakdown from previous shows.

“For a normal big concert in Croke Park, you might be hitting 50% would be from Dublin, but for this it was just under 20%,” Aiken said.

“So he was aware of how popular it was and how many tickets we sold in Galway and Limerick and especially in Belfast, the whole of the North was there.”

Aiken confirmed the decision was Brooks’ own.

“It’s just for this time only, this tour is just going to be outside of Dublin this time,” he said.

“That was what he wanted to do.”

Brooks saw Ed Sheeran’s posters going through the whole of Ireland and noticed Bruce Springsteen did something similar.

“He just said, ‘I’d love to do that,’ and that’s how it all really came about,” Aiken said.

“And then he said to me, ‘Let’s do it,’ and honestly I thought, even when it was confirmed, I got an awful shock, I was like ‘Jesus, we’ve got to get going here.’”

The tour announcement arrives amid an ongoing legal battle.

A makeup artist accused Brooks of sexual assault and rape in October 2024.

She filed a lawsuit as Jane Roe in California state court.

A month earlier, Brooks filed a preemptive lawsuit in Mississippi seeking an injunction to block what he called “extortionate conduct.”

Brooks denies the accusations.

He told CNN it was extortion.

The Mississippi lawsuit has been sealed but remains open.

Jane Roe tried to have that lawsuit dismissed.

A judge ruled her request “moot” in 2025.

Her original California lawsuit was transferred to federal court in November 2024.

It has sat there while the Mississippi case developed.

A key legal issue has now been resolved.

Three judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Jane Roe’s request to remain anonymous.

A lower court had previously ruled against her.

The appeals decision overturns that ruling.

The court made several points in its decision.

Judges stated that defendants are just as deserving of pseudonymity as plaintiffs.

Using real names would require the disclosure of details of the “utmost intimacy.”

Jane Roe had erred by using her real name in court documents earlier.

The decision reads: “The disclosures were unintentional, were made in portions of larger filings, and Roe took steps to correct the errors once becoming aware of them, resulting in the sealing and refiling of the documents.”

Brooks had named his accuser in an amended filing submitted on October 8, 2024.

The ruling clears the way for both lawsuits to move forward.

It is unclear if either will reach a swift conclusion.

In his initial response to the accusations, Brooks said lawyers told him the case could take two years to complete.

He also made it clear he was not going to settle.

It has been over two years since the accusations first emerged.