The government is meeting with arts campaigners today to look at which events can reopen.
A ban on alcohol at music events is being considered by government as a way of allowing gigs and concerts to resume.
The Irish Times reports that the Minister for Arts Catherine Martin and Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly are meeting with meet arts campaigners today to examine what facilities and events can be further reopened within Covid-19 public-health guidelines.
Currently, only businesses or services such as museums, cinemas, theatres and art galleries can allow a maximum 50 people to congregate indoors because they are deemed to be “controlled environments”.
All other indoor cultural events are subject to the six-person-maximum rule.
“I hope it will assist everyone in developing a better understanding of how we can move forward and strike an appropriate balance between protecting our public health in an effort to ensuring events of greater numbers than current restrictions inside and outside can take place where possible,” Ms Martin told the Irish Times.
However, Angela Dorgan from the National Campaign for the Arts thinks people like a drink at a gig.
''I think anything that's laying out what the concerns of the Department of Health is useful to the sector'', she said.
''If serving alcohol is a concern then that's an issue that will have to be brought back to the sector.
''I think it's unrealistic that people will want to go to a gig and not have a beer''.
