{"id":113835,"date":"2025-10-10T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/113835\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:30:19","slug":"killarney-coffee-cup-project-still-alive-despite-lack-of-government-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/113835\/","title":{"rendered":"Killarney Coffee Cup Project still alive despite lack of government support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers of the Killarney Coffee Cup Project say it is still alive, despite what they say is a lack of government support.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was launched in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/killarney.ie\/killarney-coffee-cup-project\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the project<\/a> received support of dozens of local businesses, who stopped selling drinks in disposable coffee cups.<\/p>\n<p>Co-president of Killarney Chamber of Tourism and Commerce, Johnny McGuire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/government-accused-of-fudging-so-called-latte-levy-454829\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had accused the government<\/a> of fudging its plans for a \u2018latte levy\u2019, which would have charged a fee on disposable cups at the till, similar to the plastic bag levy.<\/p>\n<p>Some businesses in Killarney have withdrawn from the project, and organisers say it is on shaky ground, but very much still alive.<\/p>\n<p>They say the lack of government support is very disheartening, but they will continue to lobby public representatives on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organisers of the Killarney Coffee Cup Project say it is still alive, despite what they say is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,6281,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-113835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-coffee","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113835","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=113835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}