Councillors consider moves to ban playground smoking

SIGNS asking adults to refrain from smoking are likely to be erected in Cork County Council playgrounds, while the local authority ponders how it could police a bylaw actually banning all smoking at these facilities.

While the majority of the 48-member council have supported a call by Councillor Deirdre Forde for an outright ban, many have expressed concern that they don’t have the resources to police it.

Ms Forde (FG) said she had been asked to seek the ban by the anti-smoking lobby ASH, and thought it was a good idea.