Forest Eireann: headline news

Forest Eireann has generated its first headline: "Smokers' group urges Government to relax ban as 1,000 pubs forced to close". The Dublin-based Sunday Independent reports that "Forest Eireann (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco), a group representing beleaguered smokers, has claimed that the smoking ban has been the main cause of the downfall of Irish pubs." Story HERE.

PS. The same report has appeared in the Belfast Telegraph.

Update on Monday, September 20, 2010 by Simon Clark

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