{"id":652290,"date":"2025-12-24T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652290\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T10:27:40","slug":"communities-minister-gordon-lyonss-response-to-alcohol-licensing-report-criticised-as-extremely-frustrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652290\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities Minister Gordon Lyons&#8217;s response to alcohol licensing report criticised as \u2018extremely frustrating\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The authors of a report into licensing laws in Northern Ireland tell James McNaney about their disappointment with the minister\u2019s response and the thorny issue of reforming the hospitality sector here\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A report into liquor licensing in Northern Ireland reccommended reforming the laws governing it here   (Getty)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f346fa27-599c-402c-ad38-2f54ca0db33e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A report into liquor licensing in Northern Ireland reccommended reforming the laws governing it here   (Getty)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The authors of a report into licensing in Northern Ireland have said that they are disappointed with the response of the Communities Minister to their work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Professor Niamh Fitzgerald and Dr James Nicholls said they are disappointed the DUP\u2019s Gordon Lyons rejected most of their recommendations, and said that he has declined to meet with them since the report\u2019s publication in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The authors of a report into licensing laws in Northern Ireland tell James McNaney about their disappointment with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":652291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[42497,9085,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-652290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-gordon-lyons","9":"tag-james-mcnaney","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115774073389234798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/652291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}