{"id":205037,"date":"2025-12-22T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205037\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:57:09","slug":"the-woman-running-north-kerrys-only-full-time-bookstore-everybody-told-me-i-couldnt-last-a-fortnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/205037\/","title":{"rendered":"The woman running north Kerry\u2019s only full-time bookstore \u2013\u2018Everybody told me I couldn&#8217;t last a fortnight\u2019"},"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\">Brenda Woulfe got a fright when an Eason franchise opened next door to her store but she did not wish the business any ill\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brenda Woulfe at her bookstore in Listowel. Photo by John Kelliher\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dabf257b-dd1b-4719-ad02-74940d235482.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)\">Brenda Woulfe at her bookstore in Listowel. Photo by John Kelliher<\/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)\">Recession, close competition, illness and changing trends have not stood in the way of the Listowel woman who runs the only full-time bookstore in north Kerry.<\/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)\">Brenda Woulfe opened Woulfe\u2019s Bookshop on Church Street in Listowel in 2006 and despite the doubters, she has braved every storm that has come her way and seen the business thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brenda Woulfe got a fright when an Eason franchise opened next door to her store but she did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,3332],"class_list":["post-205037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205037","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=205037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}