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Hi Micheál Martin If you’re ever stuck for a guest some episode I’ll gladly come on and we can discuss how failed government policies over the past number of years have decimated tourism, destroyed small family run businesses, been a disaster for people’s mental health,

Proudly hanging on my wall in my house. An absolute cracking photo Carl Prenter A lot of childhood memories!!

7 nights a week…….. Is it too early for beer!!

Water cut off on foxrock avenue Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Barry Ward 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 no warning harder for small business to survive #lunchtime😮‍💨😤

Smartest comment I've seen on this subject yet...

Cows in fields all across Ireland today knowing there is no one pushing to cull 200,000 of them any more!!

Kerry restaurateur warn of blink winter ahead if lower VAT rate for hospitality isn't reinstated Paul Treyvaud

No our industry is perfectly fine. No one is over reacting or exaggerating. All these closures are perfectly normal. Stop your pissing and moaning This government is doing a great job!! What we need is a minister for tourism and enterprise that actually knows the game and more

The government is completely out of touch and has no idea what it’s like to run a small business in these difficult times. The minister responsible has seen their salary increase by €26,460 over 5 years, while net profits for restaurant owners have plunged below 1%. With 580+

I too will try to be cryptic!!! When a bully picks on the wrong person, they invariably get there ass handed to them and then cry off into a dark room playing the victim Or as they might call it, on the receiving end of a ‘pile on!’ If you are not blocked by this individual,

Just to put it in layman’s terms this is what this government have decided to do with todays budget Look, we think there’s simply too many of you out there so we’re gonna put out a budget that will force about 15-20% of you to close your bar, restaurants and retail outlets.

Tomorrow the hospitality industry, and others, are marching to government buildings led by the Restaurants Association of Ireland I will not be supporting or marching with them and here’s why During Covid, in my opinion, the RAI sold out the entire restaurant industry (including non members like

Profoundly disappointing that the The Irish Times would run a puff piece on an utterly unqualified influencer who puts vulnerable people at risk with their incessant scaremongering. Especially poor form that dieticians who repeatedly expressed their concerns were ignored..

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In 23 years in business I have never seen such a slow start to a year. And we are one of the lucky ones!! Worst February ever. March not much better. I can already see that April is going to be a disaster. And with costs going up literally every single week, I can only see it

Industry chiefs??? I’ve been bloody warning about this for over 4 years and all the ‘industry chiefs’ told me to shut up and stop scaremongering!!! This ‘industry chief’ is saying it’s ‘hard to pinpoint what’s causing the down turn!’ Maybe if he took his head out of his hole for

It’s incredible all the suppliers that used the excuse of the cost of fuel going through the roof for increasing their prices, are STILL increasing their prices even though the cost of fuel has significantly dropped It’s also frightening how CHEAP the cost of fuel would be if

An open letter to the Irish Government on the matter of urgency within the Restaurant Industry which is now in utter turmoil Dear Micheál Martin Simon Harris TD Peter Burke I am writing as a matter of urgency to bring to your attention the utter turmoil that the Restaurant

Update - one week later I got an automated response from Peter Burke office followed up with a personalised email response from his clerical officer saying they will respond asap I got an automated response from the Taoiseach Micheál Martin to say my email had been received