{"id":231642,"date":"2026-01-07T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231642\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:06:09","slug":"kerry-publicans-calling-for-the-introduction-of-a-vaping-ban-in-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231642\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry publicans calling for the introduction of a vaping ban in bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publicans in Kerry are calling for the introduction of a vaping ban in bars.<\/p>\n<p>An initiative by several pubs in the county, saw a joint decision to introduce a ban on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/vaping\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vaping<\/a> in their establishments on New Years Day.<\/p>\n<p>Listowel publican, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/christy-walsh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christy Walsh<\/a> is among those who took the action; saying he has noticed an increase in people vaping in bars, while sitting at tables.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Walsh, who is secretary of the Kerry branch of the Vintners&#8217; Federation of Ireland, believes measures like the smoking ban should be introduced on vapes. <\/p>\n<p>He says a motion to ban vaping in pubs will be brought before the <a href=\"https:\/\/vfipubs.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry vintners<\/a> AGM this month:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Publicans in Kerry are calling for the introduction of a vaping ban in bars. An initiative by several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-231642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231642","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=231642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}