{"id":528334,"date":"2026-07-01T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/528334\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:44:10","slug":"council-in-negotiations-to-buy-sammys-restaurant-in-inch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/528334\/","title":{"rendered":"Council in negotiations to buy Sammy&#8217;s restaurant in Inch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Kerry understands that Kerry County Council has entered negotiations to purchase \u00a0Sammy&#8217;s Restaurant, Caf\u00e9 and Shop located on Inch beach.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy&#8217;s Restaurant, Caf\u00e9 and Shop was established in 1987, and was bought in 2019 by the Kilkenny Group before being put up for sale in 2023 for \u20ac1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Located on the Blue Flag Inch beach in West Kerry, \u00a0Sammy\u2019s has long been a favourite of locals and tourists alike.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s understood that the council have gone sale agreed on the restaurant and site.<\/p>\n<p>It sits on a 0.31 hectare site, and is a three-storey, double fronted property, measuring 3,800 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy&#8217;s Caf\u00e9 seats 24 people, while the restaurant seats 50 for inside dining, with an additional 48 seats for semi outside dining.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a shop selling snacks and souvenirs.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry County Council has faced criticism for a lack of facilities and parking at the popular beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio Kerry understands that Kerry County Council has entered negotiations to purchase \u00a0Sammy&#8217;s Restaurant, Caf\u00e9 and Shop located&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,197254],"class_list":["post-528334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sammy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528334","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=528334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}