Garth Brooks has told promoter Peter Aiken that if there is any chance that the five planned concerts can be salvaged and "nobody is being let down" then "we can proceed as planned until the refunds begin".
In a letter sent to Mr Aiken, the musician says his gear and crew are still en route, but if he is told "Garth, thanks but it is over", he will bring them back to the US.
Mr Brooks said to play for 400,000 people would be a dream, but to tell 160,000 of those that they are not welcome would be a nightmare.
He wrote: "I cannot begin to tell you how badly my heart is breaking right now".
Earlier, Ticketmaster released details of how to get refunds for the five cancelled concerts.
Hundreds of thousands of fans were left disappointed yesterday when it was announced that none of the shows planned for Dublin would be going ahead.
Dublin City Council had given permission for three of the five concerts and over 400,000 people had bought tickets for the shows.
Ticket holders who made the purchase over the phone, online or mobile need do nothing.
The company said a full refund, including service charges, will automatically be returned to the card used to make the purchase from 15 July.
Ticketmaster said people should allow up to ten days for the refund to reach their account.
People who purchased tickets from unauthorised ticket sellers will need to contact that ticket seller to obtain a refund, the company said.
For tickets purchased through Ticketmaster ticket centres, a refund form is available from the company's website, ticketmaster.ie/gbrefunds.
Tickets can also be returned in person at ticket centres from 15 July.
Ticketmaster managing director Keith English said there will be a very significant cost for his company and the situation was not good for any of the parties involved.
He said Ticketmaster would increase its staffing levels and have a team specifically for refunding Garth Brooks tickets purchased through outlets, because that was where the company felt the most difficulty would be.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications John O'Mahony has said it has decided to write to the GAA, Aiken Promotions and Dublin City Council to ask them to appear before the committee tomorrow.
The committee wants to establish the chain of events that led to the cancellation of the five concerts.
Mr O'Mahony said the committee also wants to explore the knock-on effect to tourism.
It is hoped the committee will meet tomorrow and Friday.
The GAA and Aiken Promotions have already accepted the request to attend. Dublin City Council said it had only just received the request and had no further comment at this time.
Resident drops High Court action
A Dublin city resident has announced he is dropping the High Court case against the Garth Brooks concerts.
Although the singer has cancelled his concerts, Brian Duff from Ballybough is removing the legal case in the hope that Garth Brooks will reconsider his decision to cancel the three concerts.
Speaking through Lord Mayor Christy Burke, who read a statement on his behalf, Mr Duff said he and his family had been subjected to threats on social media since news of his injunction broke yesterday.
He also had to stay in a bed and breakfast last night.
Mr Duff said he had taken the legal action against the GAA, not Mr Brooks, because he believed the organisation was breaking the law by holding more than three concerts.
However, he now feels that the point has been made.
The High Court was funded, he said, by €15,000 he collected from friends in GAA circles north and south of the border.
However, he has now instructed his solicitor Anthony Fay to withdraw it.
City loses €50m with cancellation of gigs
In the Dáil this morning, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said there is an air of disbelief about a cancelled major economic project.
He said it will cost the city about €50m, that 70,000 inward tourists had been due to attend, and that about 200,000 hotel bookings had been cancelled.
He said that "surely the Government should have intervened" given the enormity of the issue.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he is as disappointed as anybody else in the country that Ireland has lost this international music event and the economic value it would have brought.
He said Dublin City Council made its decision in accordance with the current planning regulations.
If the Government was to intervene, he said, it would have been accused of "coming the heavy" on an issue such as this.
He said that there have not been difficulties before at similar events and he has asked Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan to look at the application process.
The promoter of the cancelled shows earlier said he is "shell-shocked" and "devastated" by the calling-off of the event.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Peter Aiken said the country music star would not disappoint 160,000 people by only performing three of the planned five-night run.
Mr Aiken said Dublin City Council made him aware of traffic and parking issues that needed to be planned for, but it was never suggested that five concerts was going to cause problems.
He said: "This would have been a spectacular show and it couldn't have gone anywhere else."
He said he thinks Mr Brooks made the right decision, because all along he had told him everything was going to be okay.
Mr Aiken said Dublin City Council had made him aware that the company's license application would require "additionality" in terms of parking and stewardship, but he said the council gave him no indication that the staging of five concerts was in question.
He added: "You presume you're going to get the licence.
"I never got any indication, no matter what Dublin City Council say - they did say that five shows was a big ask when we went to see them but I never got any indication that this was in trouble.
"They said it was going to have a massive impact."
"We had to have the licence in ten weeks before the event, we had the licence in 14 weeks before the event," he said.
"I'd say back to Dublin City Council if it was such a problem then, why didn't you tell us that it wasn't going to run."
Mr Aiken said that the concerts will not go ahead anywhere else in Ireland this year.
When questioned about what he would say to residents who feel they had been rail-roaded into agreeing to these concerts, Mr Aiken said that he had planned for these concerts in conjunction with Croke Park and Dublin City Council.
The fact that the council had offered to allow four concerts would suggest that it did not think residents were being rail-roaded, he added.
Croke Park residents were very surprised and disappointed that there was no resolution, according to a residents' association representative.
Croke Park Streets Committee Chairman Eamon O'Brien said the people who were responsible were those who did not operate by the licensing laws.
Also Speaking on Morning Ireland, Mr O'Brien said a planned High Court injunction to stop any concerts going ahead was supported by the committee.
He said despite reports of secret talks and meetings over the last seven days, no one had approached the residents.
He added: "A crisis occasion often concentrates the mind and leads parties in a new direction and this didn't happen and the mediation process didn't work out."
The managing director of rival concert promoter MCD, meanwhile, has described the cancelling of all five concerts as a "shambles".
Speaking on the same programme, Denis Desmond said acts will be more careful about holding concerts in Ireland in the future, to ensure that there will not be a repeat of the current controversy.
Mr Desmond said there was nothing wrong with the licensing system and he did not believe there would be an end to the practice of selling tickets before a licence was issued.
Looking for five extra shows was unprecedented, he said, and was clearly seen as one step too many by Dublin City Council.
Mr Desmond said he was surprised Garth Brooks had not done the three shows that had been granted permission to proceed and then perform the other two shows at a different location.
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