@Dusty, can you offer any assistance on the point of flying markers into Dublin?
Amend that to "hiring the Olympic Park is ****ing expensive" plus the associated costs of accommodation and transport will bankrupt all but Impact and Heat, Dublin is the next best option on the National Lampoons vacation shortlist!Quick bit of research suggests you need a licence from the Garda.
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/FAQ
So perhaps the ambiguity of the July event can be interpreted as follows:-
Hiring, say, the Olympic Park is expensive. So perhaps the NXL is trying to negotiate with the Garda to obtain some sort of blanket exemption from 500-odd people having to drop 40 euros each on a firearms certificate. Perhaps by way of a certificate each player can print out and present at customs. Though knowing customs - and players - that's a big ask.
If the negotiation fails, the event takes place in London.
As @Dusty knows way more than I do, Ireland is 99% "ahhhh yer grand boy" and 1% "whats this then!?".
I personally have been fine. Travelling for years with Charlie from Assalla, we meet each other at the airports around europe. Now does this mean we're right? or are we correct? It's a different story.
I would LOVE for the Gardai to say "ahhh a chunk of money? **** it yer grand lads c'mon in!"