{"id":632449,"date":"2026-08-12T02:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/632449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:46:13","slug":"popular-dublin-restaurant-shut-down-over-breeding-cockroaches-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/632449\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Dublin restaurant shut down over \u2018breeding\u2019 cockroaches \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A toilet \u201coverflowing with human waste\u201d and a \u201csignificant\u201d cockroach infestation were among the reasons food businesses were served with closure orders last month, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland<\/a> (FSAI) said.<\/p>\n

Officers from the authority served 11 closure orders and two prohibition orders on food businesses in July for breaches of food safety legislation.<\/p>\n

The Village Shop and Takeaway in Mountbolus, Co Offaly<\/a>, was served with a closure order on July 23rd. An inspector found a manhole in the staff toilet \u201coverflowing with human waste\u201d, according to a report published by the FSAI on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis human waste was overflowing into a room storing food contact equipment adjacent to the food preparation area,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

The conditions posed \u201ca grave and immediate risk to public health\u201d as they provided \u201ca direct opportunity\u201d for food to be contaminated with bacteria, the inspector wrote.<\/p>\n

Diwali, a popular Indian and Nepalese restaurant on South Great Georges Street in Dublin 2<\/a>, was served with a closure order on July 27th.<\/p>\n

The inspector found \u201cevidence of a significant cockroach infestation throughout the kitchen food preparation areas\u201d. The report said cockroaches were \u201cpresent at all stages of their life cycle\u201d and were \u201cactively breeding\u201d on the premises.<\/p>\n

Multiple dead cockroaches were also found throughout the kitchen food preparation areas. The closure order was lifted on August 7th after sanitation measures were put in place. <\/p>\n

At Babylon Restaurant in Clonmel, Co Tipperary<\/a>, a dead rodent was found \u201cbehind equipment in close proximity to food products\u201d and rodent droppings were found \u201cunder a disused dishwasher\u201d. A closure order was issued to this business on July 17th and lifted on July 31st.<\/p>\n

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Several other premises were issued with closure orders including a mobile unit trading as Canteen Street Food in Damastown Park, Dublin 15<\/a>; India Dining restaurant in Prospect House, Church Street, Wicklow<\/a>; and Roots Health Food, a stall trading at Salthill and Monkstown<\/a> Dart<\/a> station in Co Dublin<\/a>. All of these closure orders have since been lifted. <\/p>\n

Greg Dempsey, chief executive of the FSAI, said the issues identified in the enforcement orders \u201care deeply concerning and demonstrate serious failures in basic food-safety controls\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to see cases where essential requirements, including effective cleaning, pest control, safe food handling practices, staff training and food-safety management systems are not being properly implemented,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are not optional measures; they are legal requirements that every food business must have in place to protect consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A toilet \u201coverflowing with human waste\u201d and a \u201csignificant\u201d cockroach infestation were among the reasons food businesses were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,52,10539,67859,18,13,14,948,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,70212,5,2121,7,8,946],"class_list":["post-632449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-dublin","tag-dublin-15","tag-dublin-2","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-food-safety-authority-of-ireland","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-monkstown","tag-news","tag-tipperary","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wicklow"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117080253188905766","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632449","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=632449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}