City centre businesses want bylaws to control ‘out-of-tune’ buskers

Business leaders in Cork City are seeking the introduction of bylaws to control noisy buskers — or those who cause a nuisance because they haven’t a note in their heads.

Donal Healy, chief executive of Cork Business Association (CBA), said he’d received a number of complaints from his members about loud or out-of-tune buskers who were annoying them and shoppers alike.

Mr Healy confirmed he was in contact with City Hall in an effort to get them to create bylaws to curb the activities of such people.