{"id":128454,"date":"2025-11-08T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128454\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:25:11","slug":"i-think-theyre-going-to-have-a-moment-are-irish-bbs-a-dying-breed-or-a-warm-welcome-in-a-world-of-key-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/128454\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I think they\u2019re going to have a moment\u2019 \u2013 are Irish B&#038;Bs a dying breed, or a warm welcome in a world of key boxes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIreland\u2019s B&amp;Bs face huge challenges, from long hours to rising costs. But new ideas and an old-school welcome can still hold appeal for travellers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ciara O'Brien at Barnahown. Photo: Kirsty Lyons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dac4dfe6-e8a0-4298-b39b-7743636d5c17.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ciara O&#8217;Brien at Barnahown. Photo: Kirsty Lyons<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThere\u2019s usually two different things people think of when they hear we run a B&amp;B,\u201d says Enda MacMullan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cWhen the younger generation hear \u2018B&amp;B\u2019, they generally assume it\u2019s an Airbnb, as opposed to the traditional B&amp;B, because that\u2019s what they\u2019re more familiar with. And then there\u2019s the paper doilies\/toilet-roll cover\/ staying-at-your-gran\u2019s-house idea of the quaint traditional B&amp;B. We\u2019re somewhere in between,\u201d he says. \u201cOr nowhere near either!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s B&amp;Bs face huge challenges, from long hours to rising costs. But new ideas and an old-school welcome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-128454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}