Jess Kelly

Are you going to make the move?

TechTalk at Newstalk.com.

For the moment, Ciara O'Brien from the Irish Times.

Thanks so much.

Thanks for having me.

Now we move to the news that it's almost five years since Ireland introduced anti-ticket touting legislation.

And many new measures have been introduced on the ticketing platform Ticketmaster to tackle the touts.

But a quick scan online around any big event will show us that tickets are being sold for multiples of faced value.

So what are the loopholes now and how can they be closed?

Newstalk's tech correspondent Jess Kelly joins us now.

Hello, Jess.

Good morning.

Is anything working?

So you can sell your Ryder Cup ticket for whatever you want and you're not breaking the law.

Exactly.

But even if you do break the law and you resell a ticket at any of those venues, the likelihood is, given what we've seen since that law came into effect, nobody's been convicted.

So the likelihood is you're not going to get caught.

And they can transfer that ticket then to that person readily enough, can't they?

That's bananas.

Well, you could be fined €100,000, up to €100,000 or face two years in prison, but nobody has.