{"id":103865,"date":"2025-10-05T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103865\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T09:58:08","slug":"cork-bar-owner-warns-pubs-may-not-survive-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103865\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork bar owner warns pubs may not survive the winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The owner of two major bars says Cork hospitality sector hit by costs, lost events and tourism downturn\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Publican Sean McCarthy outside one of his bars, Tequilla Jack's\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/RG tequillajack1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Publican Sean McCarthy outside one of his bars, Tequilla Jack&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The owner of two major bars in Cork says he cannot be sure whether either business will still be operating in a year\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sean McCarthy, who operates Tequila Jack\u2019s on Lapp\u2019s Quay and Paddy the Farmer\u2019s on the Old Blackrock Road, says his businesses are being hit from all sides, with the new mandatory pension contribution and the rise in the minimum wage cutting further into what are increasingly tight margins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owner of two major bars says Cork hospitality sector hit by costs, lost events and tourism downturn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,34269],"class_list":{"0":"post-103865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kevin-galvin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}