The promotion for the Rolling Stones concert in Dublin's Phoenix Park in August will be handled by Aiken Promotions, the High Court was told yesterday.
Jim O'Callaghan, counsel for the Office of Public Works (OPW), told Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne his client was going ahead with its decision to award the contract for handling the concert to Aiken Promotions, Dublin.
Maurice Collins SC, for Dún Laoghaire-based MCD Promotions Ltd, said MCD would be applying next week, by way of leave to seek judicial review, to legally challenge the decision to award the contract to Aiken Promotions.
In the meantime, he said, MCD would not be seeking any interim injunctive restraint to stop the OPW proceeding with its decision which it could do at its legal peril.
The two major concert promoters had tendered for the contract to promote the Stones concert and, on finding out that the OPW had awarded it to Aiken Promotions, MCD contended that proper procedures in awarding the contract had not been followed.
Noel Travers, junior counsel for MCD, had told Mr Justice Roderick Murphy last week that MCD had learned of the intention of the OPW to award the contract to rival Aiken Promotions. Mr Travers said MCD had been informed by the OPW by e-mail on December 21st and by fax the following day that it had been unsuccessful in its tender which it had submitted on November 29th last.
Ms Justice Dunne yesterday adjourned the matter for mention until next Monday.