{"id":152271,"date":"2025-11-21T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152271\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:04:18","slug":"laois-people-crowned-most-hardworking-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152271\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois People Crowned Most Hardworking In Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 21 November 2025 16:53\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/60acacbb61b52.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The procure.ie study found Laois topped the polls in terms of commuting.\n        <\/p>\n<p>People in Laois are the hardest working in the country according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>The procure.ie study, which uses CSO data, puts Laois on top based on average distance and time workers travel, along with a low unemployment rate.<\/p>\n<p>Both Westmeath and Offaly are in the top ten, in fifth and seventh respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Each county had a potential score of three hundred, based on the three metrics with Laois scoring 271.5, Westmeath 243, and Offaly at 242.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 21 November 2025 16:53 The procure.ie study found Laois topped the polls in terms of commuting. People&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-152271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}