HSE: Patrons were smoking in bar

THE owner of a popular Killarney pub faces losing his licence, a judge said after a solicitor for the HSE described how health inspectors saw patrons smoking in the bar area.

Pat Sheahan (brother of Kerry Fine Gael senator Tom Sheahan) of McSorleys, College St, Killarney, Co Kerry, pleaded guilty yesterday to infringement of the smoking regulations on September 8.

However, he was contesting a HSE objection to the bar licence, his solicitor Paul O’Dononghue told Judge Leo Malone.