Do Oasis fans know the lyrics?
A steady crowd of people streamed into the store throughout the afternoon, many emerging minutes later with bags stuffed with T-shirts, hoodies, posters and special-edition vinyl presses made for the Live '25 tour.
Among the fans flocking to the store were brothers Daniel and Niall Duffy, aged 18 and 20, from Lusk in Co Dublin.
Rock 'n' Roll Star, Slide Away and The Masterplan were the picks of the bunch when the Duffys were asked their favourite Oasis tracks. Daniel nailed a rendition of Live Forever as we challenged fans to finish the lyrics from some of their hits.
How did fans fare? Watch our video above.
There were mixed results – one fan was pitch perfect for a few lines of Hello, a group of American tourists enthusiastically sang the wrong lyrics for Wonderwall and another fan hung her head as she forgot the words to Some Might Say.
Meanwhile, the collaboration between Oasis and sportswear giant Adidas has made huge waves, selling out when it was first released ahead of the tour and proving hugely popular at the pop-ups seen across Cardiff, London, Edinburgh and now Dublin.
When the Irish Independent visited the store, there was just a single shirt bearing the three stripes left, a lone black and beige, size large short sleeve.
A pair of friends deliberated over the shirt, balked at the €55 price tag and promptly placed it back on the rack. It was scooped up by the man next to them in the blink of an eye. For his trouble, he got a look that screamed, 'Would you have stood in my grave as fast?'
Brothers Daniel and Niall Duffy, having already shelled out more than €500 for tickets for Saturday's gig at Croke Park, spent nearly €400 between them at the pop-up shop selling clothes, programmes and vinyl.
They went to see Liam when his 30th-anniversary tour came to Ireland last year, so Niall made sure to get his younger brother on the Oasis train ahead of the gig. 'I spent €190 on this,' Daniel said, nodding to his recently acquired bag of goodies. 'It's a tour programme, a hoodie and two T-shirts.'
The brothers, self-described Oasis superfans, managed to avoid the scramble for tickets many had struggled with.
'We ended up getting on the pre-sale ballot. We weren't far off only paying for the cheapest, we didn't have to deal with the general sale,' Niall said.
'We only paid the standard price for the tickets, we avoided the dynamic pricing totally.
'Standard' pricing for the tickets was still a pretty penny for them at around €170 each for seats in the lower Hogan Stand, but they're just happy to not be up in the nosebleeds.
On the relatively younger side of the Oasis fandom, this is the first chance for the Duffy brothers to see the band live. Did they think the day would ever come?
'I had a feeling it would happen at some point,' Daniel said.
'I didn't think it would happen so soon, but I was hopeful.'
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