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Greens urge deregulation to save traditional pubs

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2001 / October 30 2001: Greens urge deregulation to save traditional pubs

The Green Party has taken up the cause of the intimate "local" pub, which it says is facing extinction because of restrictions on the opening of new pubs. The party has called for deregulation to save the traditional Irish pub from becoming "an extinct species". Current laws make it very difficult to open a new pub, the party's planning spokesman, Cllr Ciaran Cuffe, said yesterday, and so existing pubs were expanding into superpubs.

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