{"id":480613,"date":"2026-05-12T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480613\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:12:10","slug":"rural-pubs-say-they-face-existential-threat-with-over-2220-pubs-closing-in-past-20-years-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/480613\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural pubs say they face \u2018existential threat\u2019, with over 2,220 pubs closing in past 20 years – The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Rural pubs say they face \u2018existential threat\u2019, with over 2,220 pubs closing in past 20 years<\/a>  The Journal<\/li>\n
  2. \u2018Publicans have said they’ve never seen anything like this\u2019 \u2013 rising costs leave rural pubs facing \u2018existential threat\u2019 as energy crisis hits<\/a>  The Irish Independent<\/li>\n
  3. Rural pubs facing ‘existential threat’ without targeted government support<\/a>  BreakingNews.ie<\/li>\n
  4. “If you want us to die, keep doing what you’re doing” Kilkenny Head of VFI warns Government at AGM in Carlow<\/a>  KCLR 96FM<\/li>\n
  5. Irish pubs are dying: VFI chief calls for emergency government action<\/a>  Irish Examiner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rural pubs say they face \u2018existential threat\u2019, with over 2,220 pubs closing in past 20 years  The Journal \u2018Publicans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,210272,19,17,210273,99500,17924,210274,142272],"class_list":{"0":"post-480613","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-government-supports","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-pat-crotty","14":"tag-publicans","15":"tag-pubs","16":"tag-rural-pubs","17":"tag-vintners-federation-of-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116560839177720818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480613","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=480613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}