Cabinet backs ticket touting ban law

Fans will no longer have to pay hundreds of euro over the odds for events under proposed laws backed by the Government — a move ticket resellers have said will drive the multi-million euro trade underground.

Business Minister Heather Humphreys said the Cabinet has agreed to back, with amendments, a bill put forward by Fine Gael TD Noel Rock and Fianna Fáil TD Stephen Donnelly to ban ticket touting.

The law would ban the selling of tickets for more than their face value for sporting and entertainment events in designated venues with a capacity of 1,000 people or more.