Irish Health Minister Micheal Martin has banned smoking from all establishments where food is served: including pubs.

I won't say much of anything, other than to quote Chesterton: "We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera." I suppose, after smoking in pubs has been snuffed out {pardon the pun}, we should tackle the very pressing problem of people sleeping in hotels...