{"id":596712,"date":"2026-08-18T05:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596712\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T05:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T05:26:25","slug":"ennis-has-second-highest-amount-of-counterfeit-cigarettes-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596712\/","title":{"rendered":"Ennis Has Second Highest Amount Of Counterfeit Cigarettes In Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 60% of cigarette packs found in Ennis avoided Irish duty tax this year.<\/p>\n<p>JTI Ireland\u2019s latest empty pack survey also found that one-fifth of discarded packs in this county were counterfeit.<\/p>\n<p>It estimates the government missed out on \u20ac750m in lost revenue in the last year alone.<\/p>\n<p>Retailer and HSE Regional Health Forum MidWest Member Councillor Rita McInerney says the health and organised crime implications are hugely concerning.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 60% of cigarette packs found in Ennis avoided Irish duty tax this year. JTI Ireland\u2019s latest empty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-596712","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\/596712","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=596712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}