It's Monday so it must be ... Tralee
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 14:24 
Forest Eireann's 'Road to Prohibition' tour has reached the south west of Ireland.
Beginning in Cork last Wednesday, our representative John Mallon travelled to Waterford where he was interviewed by the local radio station WLRFM.
He then moved on to Tipperary and Offaly for interviews with Tipp FM and Midland Radio respectively.
Today he's in Tralee for an interview with Radio Kerry and tomorrow he'll travel to Limerick and Ennis.
After that he'll be in Galway (Wednesday), Sligo (Thursday) and Donegal (Friday).
The tour will finish next week with two days in Dublin. (I've just booked my flight. Should be fun!)
As you can see from the map above, the 'Road to Prohibition' tour will have covered most parts of the country.
So far it's not been entirely plain sailing. As I reported last week the head of news at KCLR in Kilkenny refused to interview John because 'smoking kills' and Forest is supported by the tobacco companies.
In addition an interview with the Irish Examiner was spiked by the editor, as John explains:
Last Wednesday I did a long interview on creeping prohibition with a journalist from the Irish Examiner. The man wrote up the piece, including my observations on the attacks on other lifestyles, but the editor decided not to publish it and instead, this weekend, that paper’s editorial screams, Tobacco saga must inform obesity war.
Inside a report is headlined, 10% tax on junk food to tackle obesity and elsewhere another article informs us that, Foods marketed as ‘healthier’ could lead to weight gain: study.
Nevertheless we are still getting a fair number of interviews so hats off to John for taking on a difficult challenge.
Click here to read part one of John's tour diary. Comments welcome.
Reader Comments (2)
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I wonder if John has read this. I’m sure this item would fit in very nicely with his theme of prohibition. We always knew it’s not a question of if but when.
Perhaps you could do a post on this Simon.
Tobacco smoke is biggest home pollutant in Ireland, EPA study finds. Go here
Well, the zealots did drive smokers out of the places where they normally smoked didn't they?
And where, pray, is the proof that this 'pollution' does ant harm?