Corkman lodges legal challenge against smoking ban

A Cork-based hackney driver has reportedly lodged a challenge against the constitutionality of the Government’s workplace smoking ban.

Reports this morning said the Department of Health had confirmed that it had been served with a plenary summons and was preparing to the fight the High Court case.

The reports said Liam O’Riordan was claiming that the smoking ban infringed his civil liberties and rights under Article 40 of the Constitution.