Handling of late-night ticketing rules not a shambles, Green Party minister insists

Nightclubs in Ireland reopened on Friday night (Dominic McGrath/PA)

The Government’s handling of new ticketing rules for live music and late-night hospitality is not shambolic, a minister has insisted.

Pippa Hackett, the Green Party’s Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity, admitted there are still anomalies to be ironed out but insisted that decisions had to be made based on the upward trend in Covid numbers.