Pubs 'must be given right to ban children'

PUBLICANS must be given the legal right to ban children from their premises, the Commission on Liquor Licensing recommended yesterday.

The report also recommends that publicans be allowed ask an adult with children to leave the bar if they were deemed to be staying too long.

The recommendations, which follow a number of controversial rulings by the Equality Authority, come as part of the second report by the body set up by the Government to review the whole area of alcohol sales.