{"id":158293,"date":"2025-11-25T05:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158293\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:54:09","slug":"david-w-higgins-a-lean-country-is-no-good-ireland-needs-to-build-some-muscle-for-better-state-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158293\/","title":{"rendered":"David W Higgins: A lean country is no good, Ireland needs to build some muscle for better state spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We need to think bigger than just administering a shot of Ozempic\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Energy capacity is an issue for Ireland. Stock image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1c30e8af-d7bf-440f-920d-eac4ecf076a3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Energy capacity is an issue for Ireland. Stock image<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The emerging world of weight-loss drugs continues to astound. Ozempic has become a catch-all term to cover several products that activate the GLP-1 hormone, regulating appetite for food in the brain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Several ongoing trials for new products show great progression. Oral tablets may soon replace the need for weekly injections. The US remains at the vanguard for these treatments with 12pc of Americans reporting that they are currently taking them. The number is 45pc among Americans with diabetes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We need to think bigger than just administering a shot of Ozempic Energy capacity is an issue for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[605,61,60,29093,43,3589],"class_list":["post-158293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-elon-musk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-metrolink","tag-news","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158293","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=158293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}