Fergal Nealon
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With Aviva Insurance.
What's troubling you about them?
with a population of 20,000, they're popping up at a rate we haven't seen in any other retail category.
Now, it's the window displays which is what's troubling me, as well as their proliferation, but it's the window displays we seem to be able to control in terms of legislation.
Some are worse than others, but most of these shop fronts are dressed up like cartoons.
You're talking neon pinks, electric blues, cartoon characters, swirling lollipop designs in the window.
So you would walk past and you'd think it was a sweet shop or a children's party venue.
So, for example, there I passed with my own child last week.
She's only four years of age.
She was pulling at me to bring her inside one of these shops.
The window display had vapes alongside bongs.
right beside a display of a very popular children's toy and rainbow-colored sweet signs.
So behind these windows, they're actually selling nicotine.
So what we're seeing on our main street in Sligo is these nicotine pushers, technicolored nicotine pushers, dressed up as funhouses.
And they're sitting on our streets, which is near our schools, where our children and early teens congregate.
100%, Clare, 100%.
But if Willy Wonka was selling nicotine to children, this is exactly what the shop front would look like.
And I'm not asking anybody.
As you say, it is legal.
Adults are entitled to make their own decisions.