{"id":555572,"date":"2026-07-18T05:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555572\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T05:26:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T05:26:34","slug":"td-wants-raw-milk-to-be-sold-in-ireland-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/555572\/","title":{"rendered":"TD wants raw milk to be sold in Ireland once again"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Irish people can buy vapes, they should also be able to purchase raw milk, a TD has argued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland advises people against drinking unpasteurised milk, which it advises \u201cmay contain harmful bacteria that can cause illness\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pregnant women, children, the elderly and those with chronic illnesses are particularly at risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It means that the vast majority of milk in Ireland is pasteurised – although, there is still some demand for the traditional, untreated kind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI had constituents who are travelling to Newry and out far out of Dublin to get raw milk, so I wanted to raise it on their behalf,\u201d Barry Heneghan told Newstalk Breakfast<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy granny drank raw milk; she lived to 98, she used to have a shop on the Malahide Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSure, she lived very well and swore by the raw milk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\" Raw milk from Fen Farm Dairy in Suffolk, England. Picture by: Alamy.com.<\/p>\n

While the Dublin Bay North TD acknowledged there are risks to drinking raw milk, he said raw milk is less dangerous than many other items already legally for sale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can someone go in and buy a vape, a battery and inhale it, but they can’t go in and decide to drink raw milk?\u201d he argued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the raw milk argument, it’s really got people’s attention; I’ve been getting emails from supporters and people against it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deputy Heneghan continued that a free society allows adults to make their own choices.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know in rural Ireland it’s a lot easier, but I think if someone is an adult, they should maybe be able to make adult decisions on what they consume,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason I co-related it with the fact that someone can go in and buy cigarettes or a coalition of chemicals that they can inhale in apple flavour was that, I don’t understand, as an adult, you cannot decide what you put into your own body.\u201d<\/p>\n

Main image: Independent TD Barry Heneghan. Picture by: Alamy.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Irish people can buy vapes, they should also be able to purchase raw milk, a TD has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-555572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555572","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=555572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}