{"id":487136,"date":"2026-06-07T05:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487136\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:48:10","slug":"sauna-operators-and-vendors-to-pay-e1-4k-for-licence-to-trade-at-some-cork-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487136\/","title":{"rendered":"Sauna operators and vendors to pay \u20ac1.4k for licence to trade at some Cork beaches\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Sauna operators and food and coffee vendors will have to pay up to \u20ac1,400 a year for a licence to trade at several beach locations in Co Cork.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A recent by-law change will formalise these operators as part of an effort to \u201cprotect businesses\u201d serving areas such as Fountainstown, Myrtleville, and other\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41855358.html\">beach<\/a> areas that usually attract large crowds during spells of hot weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The \u20ac1,400 annual fee would mean it is up to six times more expensive in Cork than some other counties in Munster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The by-law, adopted earlier this month in the Carrigaline Municipal District, is the first of its kind in the county, with the other seven municipal districts expected to follow suit once the \u201cCarrigaline process is complete\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Fund community wardens<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Councillor Audrey Buckley said the fee would help fund two community wardens to enforce litter rules and check vendors\u2019 licences. It will also help provide more toilets in the areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She said the cost worked out at between \u20ac23 and \u20ac27 a week for vendors, with about 16 pitches available across the Carrigaline district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThis money will pay for customers eating burgers or using saunas to have access to a toilet,\u201d Ms Buckley told  The Echo\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt also means vendors will have to provide their own bins instead of relying on council bins. They will also have to use recyclable materials, so no more styrofoam,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Successful applicants will be granted a pitch for one year. \u201cYou can\u2019t sell it, move it on or lend it to somebody else,\u201d Ms Buckley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            \u201cIt protects everyone. If I buy a pitch as a coffee vendor and you buy one as a burger vendor, you can\u2019t suddenly hand yours over to another coffee vendor. That won\u2019t be allowed. That\u2019s part of protecting the people who have invested in their trade.\u201d\u00a0\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Good trading opportunities<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ms Buckley said the beach locations offered strong footfall and good trading opportunities for vendors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">She added that she understood that paying the levy in a lump sum could be difficult and said she would ask whether it could be paid in three or four instalments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.echolive.ie\/corknews\/arid-41855694.html\">Cork County Council<\/a> spokesperson said the associated fees are \u201cnot intended as a revenue-generating measure, and have been calculated to cover the costs arising from these activities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">These include \u201cthe maintenance and upkeep of the public lands on which these services operate, the administration of the licensing system and the monitoring and enforcement of the by-laws&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sauna operators and food and coffee vendors will have to pay up to \u20ac1,400 a year for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,35286,79,61,60],"class_list":["post-487136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-carrigaline","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487136","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=487136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}