Kind of blue: Cork Jazz Festival 2020 latest event to be pulled this year due to Covid-19

The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has become the latest victim of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a huge blow to the local economy.

A mainstay of the Irish cultural calendar for more than 40 years, the music extravaganza is the highlight of the October Bank Holiday weekend and attracts some 40,000-plus people to Cork city.