{"id":362286,"date":"2026-03-24T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362286\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:17:19","slug":"new-lease-of-life-for-kerry-towns-ground-breaking-coffee-cup-project-as-younger-generation-embrace-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/362286\/","title":{"rendered":"New lease of life for Kerry town&#8217;s ground-breaking coffee cup project as younger generation embrace initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ciara Treacy of The Killarney Coffee Cup project with Presentation Monastery National School Principal Mary Brosnan. Photo by Eamonn Keogh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cae33059-376e-4b60-a1a2-0ed81fe4fc06.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 Treacy of The Killarney Coffee Cup project with Presentation Monastery National School Principal Mary Brosnan. Photo by Eamonn Keogh<\/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)\">Killarney made history almost three years ago when it became the first town in Ireland to eliminate coffee cups and while the unique initiative has had some set backs the town is determined to continue on its path.  <\/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)\">To help further boost their efforts  the Killarney Coffee Cup project is now working with local school children to ensure they use resuable cups therefore further elminating the potential use of take-away cups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ciara Treacy of The Killarney Coffee Cup project with Presentation Monastery National School Principal Mary Brosnan. Photo by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,4256],"class_list":["post-362286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sinead-kelleher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362286","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=362286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}