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By Grainne McLoughlin

If you weren’t within 20 minutes of Robbie Williams’s concert tickets for Dublin’s Croke Park going on sale, you’ll have been disappointed.

The 80,000 tickets for Williams’ date next June sold out in just 20 minutes. And the managing director of Ticketmaster Ireland said, they could have filled the massive stadium three times over and still not met the huge demand.

Williams is set to play on June 9 next year.