{"id":184262,"date":"2025-12-10T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184262\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:33:09","slug":"european-council-president-antonio-costa-has-full-confidence-in-irelands-ability-to-protect-eu-leaders-from-russian-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/184262\/","title":{"rendered":"European Council president Antonio Costa has \u2018full confidence\u2019 in Ireland\u2019s ability to protect EU leaders from Russian threat"},"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\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin dismisses Russian ambassador\u2019s denial over drones\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Antonio Costa, president of the European Council. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/69350ece-e9b7-48cd-8521-f9963bd185d2.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)\">Antonio Costa, president of the European Council. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Mary Regan and John Burns<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/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)\">Europe has \u201cfull confidence\u201d in Ireland ensuring the security of EU heads of state when they visit as part of the presidency of the European Council next year, despite suspected Russian drone activity in Irish skies last week.<\/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)\">Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that unidentified drones were spotted near the flight path of his plane during his trip to Dublin last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin dismisses Russian ambassador\u2019s denial over drones Antonio Costa, president of the European Council. Photo: Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[969,2244,61,60,5243,25081,1843,43,3589,2040,16586],"class_list":{"0":"post-184262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-burns","13":"tag-mary-regan","14":"tag-micheal-martin","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine","18":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184262","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=184262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}