Coveney: People 'won't have to wait much longer' for certainty on live events reopening

The minister says he empathises with workers in arts and culture

Lord Mayor of Cork Colm Kelleher, Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney, and Ambassador of France to Ireland Vincent Guérend at the announcement, at the River Lee Hotel, of the Cork French Film Festival. Picture: Brian Lougheed

The roadmap for reopening that people working in the live events sector desperately crave should be ready "within the next week or so, or before the end of the month", Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has said.

The Government recognises the "intense frustration" of people working in the live events sector, he said, as anger grows from industry figures who claim they have been badly let down with no path yet outlined as to when they can get going.