Ever find yourself listening to an amazing busker on shop Street in Galway but discover you have no spare change to tip them?
Well that could all be changing soon as our neighbour across the pond in London has introduced a contactless payment system for its buskers, where passers-by can tap their cards to make a payment to the performers.
Following a successful trial scheme, the system has been formally adopted with London mayor Sadiq Khan calling it a "first-of-its-kind scheme”.
Under the new scheme, performers will be able to bring along card readers, and accept loose change as well as a contactless payment.
Khan said: “Busking helps emerging artists to hone their talent and gives them the chance to perform in front of huge numbers of people.
The scheme has been launched in partnership with Swedish tech firm iZettle, which was taken over by US giant PayPal earlier this month.
