{"id":667013,"date":"2026-10-27T17:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667013\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T17:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T17:36:12","slug":"ennis-air-pollution-equivalent-to-whole-town-passively-smoking-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/667013\/","title":{"rendered":"Ennis Air Pollution Equivalent To Whole Town &#8220;Passively Smoking For Hours&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s claimed the levels of air pollution in Ennis are comparable to the whole town passively smoking for hours.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as new research shows Ireland\u2019s air quality is linked to 1,500 premature deaths nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Ennis recorded the worst air quality results in Ireland, with pollutants exceeding acceptable levels on seven occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Although the situation is improving this year, with just three exceedances so far , all of which related to PM10.<\/p>\n<p>These tiny particles can come from a range of sources, including burning solid fuels in homes and emissions from road traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Bell founder of Ireland\u2019s Air Quality Alerts says the impact on human health is significant.<\/p>\n<p>Clare County Council is now facing calls to step up enforcement of regulations aimed at tackling air pollution from solid fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Former Ennis Green Party Councillor Brian Meaney says both individuals burning prohibited fuels and merchants selling them should face prosecution to stamp out the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full interview here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s claimed the levels of air pollution in Ennis are comparable to the whole town passively smoking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-667013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667013","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=667013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}