Healy-Rae's pub, Kerry: At the Jackie Healy-Rae bar in Kilgarvan, Co Kerry, yesterday there were few indications the lights were to go out on smoking in public places in a matter of hours.
Ashtrays in all shapes and colours were on every surface in the four drinking areas - the lounge, the television lounge, the pool room and the traditional bar.
Cigarettes were available in genteel packets of 10s as well as 20s and were being sold from inside the counter, near the Easter eggs and the dart trophies and the Rizla papers rather than from a dispensing machine.
A photo montage on a wall in the bar, alongside pictures of Kerry football teams, put together by Ms Eileen Healy-Rae, wife of owner Mr Danny Healy-Rae, read in words cut out from newspaper headlines "Keep your hands off our bars and our fags".
The photographs were of the bar's committed smokers puffing away.
Mr Jim O' Carroll is one of those committed smokers. Originally from Co Tipperary, he has lived in Kilgarvan for 20 years and has worked in the US and England. He had been drinking and smoking for 40 years and would continue to do so.
"Is it now a criminal offence?" he asked. He worried about the €3,000 fine he would have to pay if caught smoking in a bar. He also worried about the lifestyle changes the ban would mean to pension day customers.
"Old farmers coming into town for their pension have a couple of pints and a couple of cigarettes. Are we going to deprive them of their one day out?" he asked. There were bigger issues that could be tackled.
This was the opinion too of Mr Jackie Healy-Rae TD.
The "rebellion" out on the streets at one or two o'clock in the morning in every town in Ireland was not being tackled at all and was being drowned out by the smoking ban, he said.
Inside bars, the target of the ban were "a clientele of people doing no harm to anyone but themselves".
Bar worker Ms Fiona O'Sullivan said she was making no preparations at that stage to gather up the ashtrays and was not sure if there were going to be any.
Mr Danny Healy-Rae, who was canvassing for the local elections, said by mobile phone that he would not be gathering up any ashtrays.
The two or three people he would have were regular customers and family friends and he wasn't going to ask any of them to put out their cigarettes. Like his father, he was more concerned about the violence on the streets.