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Festival & Events
Picture This, Dermot Kennedy, The Chemical Brothers, Westlife as well as the annual Laya City Spectacular, the Cork Summer Show, and new events such as the Red Bull Driftshifters and Cork City Race. Culture Night 2020 Cork City Culture Night 2020 took place on Friday, September 18th, with a mix of small-scale live events, online pre-records and live streams hosted by cultural venues and organisations around the City. Despite the ongoing restrictions due to COVID-19, 68 venues took part in this year’s programme. In total, 46 off-line events took place, with the rest online. The writer Cónal Creedon was ambassador for Cork City Culture Night 2020.
Event Licences COVID-19 had a significant impact on the
granting of Licences for events with audiences in excess of 5,000 attendees in 2020 in Cork City. A Government decision was made that event licence applications in respect of events scheduled to take place up to the end of August should not be considered in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. A number of concerts planned for Irish Independent Park, Páirc Uí Chaoimh, the Cork Summer Show were re-scheduled to 2021. This meant that the public had to wait a little longer to experience such acts as Lewis Capaldi, Gerry Cinnamon, David Gray, The Script,
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