Ticket retailer Tickets.ie is "to add 20 new high-tech roles to develop a new streamlined product that will help fans get fair access to the market and tackle touting." The company is hiring software developers and managers in its sales, marketing and operations divisions. The €1.5M ($1.6M) project, which will run over the next year, is supported by the Enterprise Ireland Research & Development fund. Tickets.ie CEO John O'Neill said that "the project is already underway" (IRISH INDEPENDENT, 11/30).
Leading governmental sports officials from over 40 countries within the Council of Europe met in Budapest on Tuesday and "signed agreements aimed at halting game fixing, spectator violence, and performance-enhancing drug use." One accord, signed at the end of the session by the participants, "focuses primarily on combating fan violence at sports events," particularly at football matches (XINHUA, 11/30).
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has "levied a record fine on two national team players for what it called 'serious' breaches of discipline after they reportedly entertained female guests in their hotel rooms." The BCB said that cricketers Al-Amin Hossain and Sabbir Rahman were "both fined around $15,000 for 'serious off-field disciplinary breaches' during the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 tournament." It gave no details of the charges against the players, but the Prothom Alo Daily reported online that "they had taken female guests to their hotel rooms during the tour" (AFP, 11/30).
