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.