Limerick's Breda knows the lyrics she wants inked on her skin as Oasis return to Dublin

AS EXCITEMENT levels build across the country ahead of Oasis’ return to Dublin this weekend, one Limerick woman is prepared to get the band’s lyrics inked on her skin!

Limerick Live spoke to the local fans of the band who got their hands on tickets for the highly-anticipated reunion, including tattoo-ready Breda.

Sisters Breda and Helen Ryan, originally from Carew Park in the city, are among the lucky ones who will be heading to Croke Park this weekend.

Oasis will be performing two sold-out concerts in the stadium on Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17, as part of their Oasis Live ‘25 Tour.

Breda, 39, managed to bag two tickets for the Sunday night show, and she has compared the excitement levels to “like if the Beatles got back together”.

The sisters will be staying the night in Dublin, as Breda had a hotel booked long before the tickets even went on sale in order to “manifest” that she would be going to the concert.

Their plan is to head up early on the train that morning and spend the day in Dublin - maybe even stopping by an Oasis tattoo pop-up!

Breda already knows the lyrics she wants inked on her skin: “Live Forever”, from her favourite Oasis song of the same name.

She and her sister, as well as their cousins, inherited their love for Oasis from their late uncle and will be keeping his memory with them in Croke Park this weekend.

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So passionate is Breda’s love for Oasis that, when she was “much younger”, she ended up in a physical altercation with someone who claimed Blur was the better band!

Nowadays, there’s no need to fight about Oasis’ talent. Instead, you have to fight to hold on to your tickets to see them!

New mother Frances Fitzpatrick, 29, of Caherline, has had to ward people off from trying to nab her passes to the sold-out show.

“As soon as I told everyone I was pregnant, I had people who I haven't spoken to in years be like, ‘Congratulations on your baby. Are you still going to Oasis?’ I had to fend them all off with a stick!”

Unluckily for any fans hoping for a chance at getting into Croke Park this weekend, Frances had her priorities in order months ago: “As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I worked out my due date was July 12, and I immediately told my husband that under no circumstances would I be missing Oasis.”

She will be attending the Sunday night concert with her friend Jane, who was the one who managed to get her hands on the gold dust-like tickets.

Initially, their plan had been to head up early and make a day of it, but with six-week-old Oscar waiting at home, Frances will be heading up in the late afternoon and driving straight back home that night.

Having a friend who managed to buy tickets in the presale didn’t save Frances from the general sale stress unfortunately, as she was tasked with the mission of getting tickets for her father - “which I failed to do,” she admitted.

With stories of people who had spent hours in the queue and got tickets in the end being shared on social media, she spent the day refreshing the Ticketmaster page in the hope of a miracle, but it wasn’t to be.

“He's not happy because I'm going and he's not!”

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Oasis, which formed in Manchester in 1991, disbanded in 2009 after almost two decades, before reforming in 2024 in a move that made fans across the world jump for joy.

The band’s sold-out reunion tour has already stopped in Cardiff, Manchester, London and Edinburgh, and will be heading worldwide after the band’s Dublin dates.

The two Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, will be joined onstage in Dublin by returning bandmates Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs and Gem Archer on guitars, Andy Bell on bass, and new touring member Joey Waronker on drums.

If the previous shows are anything to go by, concertgoers will be treated to Oasis hits such as Don't Look Back in Anger, Champagne Supernova and, of course, Wonderwall.

Breda and Frances will be happy to see that their personal favourites, Live Forever and Half the World Away, respectively, are also on the setlist.

They can expect a night that’s part nostalgia, pure magic.