Smoking ban woes won’t go away for Bertie

THE Taoiseach’s failure to stem internal revolt over the workplace smoking ban was highlighted again last night as another junior minister openly flouted the Government line.

Pat “The Cope” Gallagher publicly threw down the gauntlet saying he wanted the full ban suspended for three years.

“We need to come up with a compromise so that certain changes in pubs can be put in place to accommodate people who smoke. We should come back and look at it again after three years or so,” he said.