A topological space is said to be
irreducible if every open covering has an open refinement that covers the space
minimally. Irreducibility is a fundamental property related to cardinality conditions
for open coverings. In this paper, a constructive proof is presented to establish that
the weak 𝜃-refinable spaces of Smith are irreducible. Various results concerning
cardinality conditions for open coverings follow as corollaries. Some examples are
included.