{"id":15254,"date":"2025-09-11T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15254\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T21:53:07","slug":"kerry-hotelier-calls-for-action-to-address-rising-cost-of-doing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/15254\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry hotelier calls for action to address rising cost of doing business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kerry hotelier say the cost of doing business is a serious concern and he is calling for action to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Padraig McGillicuddy is the proprietor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballygarry.com\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=93543186&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvqy31fHQjwMVQJJQBh27HhYmEAAYASAAEgIEWPD_BwE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ballygarry Estate, Hotel and Spa<\/a> and is also a member of the Kerry branch of the Irish Hotels Federation.<\/p>\n<p>He says smaller caf\u00e9s, restaurants and bars are the heart of town centres.<\/p>\n<p>Mr McGillicuddy says costs across the board have gone up significantly:<\/p>\n<p>Padraig McGillicuddy says it would be a lifeline for businesses if the VAT rate for the food industry was reduced to 9%:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kerry hotelier say the cost of doing business is a serious concern and he is calling for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,14411,61,60],"class_list":["post-15254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-costs","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254","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=15254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}