Despite Seatwave’s pre-emptive announcement of closure, we need to move forward with legislation on ticket sales, writes Noel Rock

The decision announced by Ticketmaster yesterday to close its ticket resale operation is welcome — but only if it delivers the long-sought opportunity for consumers to buy or resell tickets to various events at face value. Punters have, for years, been asked to play against a loaded dice in the race to secure tickets.

The personal information and credit card details of up to 40,000 Ticketmaster customers could have been stolen in a security breach, it has emerged tonight.

The head of Ticketmaster in Ireland has warned that proposed anti-touting legislation will remove safeguards from consumers buying secondhand tickets from approved resale sites.

Promoters of entertainment and sporting events have clashed over whether legislation is needed to govern the resale of tickets which can be sold at prices far in excess of face value.

Ticketmaster is holding a hackathon to improve its customer service.

Ticketmaster were warning fans to be prepared for disappointment before the tickets went on sale.

Ticket sales should be limited for individuals and identity checks made in order to clamp down on ticket touting, TDs have said.

Tickets for U2’s Joshua Tree 30th anniversary concert in Croke Park next July are appearing on resale websites at prices of more than €1,000 each, prompting fresh calls for anti-touting legislation.

It was a quick hello and goodbye to tickets for Adele’s two Dublin concerts — they sold out in just three minutes.

Sports and music fans are being warned to be on the lookout for counterfeit tickets for some of the big music and sporting events coming up in the next few weeks.

Tickets for Ed Sheeran's two Croke Park concerts this summer have sold out, Ticketmaster has confirmed.

He’s got friends in foreign places — eight of the 400,000 tickets for Garth Brooks’ Irish gigs were bought in Afghanistan.

Residents living around Croke Park are “seriously thinking” about seeking an injunction to stop the five Garth Brooks concerts this summer.

Country music star Garth Brooks was initially reluctant to play four nights in a row in Dublin this summer — the extra date is also his youngest daughter’s 18th birthday.