{"id":187679,"date":"2025-12-12T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187679\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T09:24:09","slug":"offaly-td-welcomes-new-ida-ireland-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/187679\/","title":{"rendered":"Offaly TD Welcomes New IDA Ireland Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 12 December 2025 09:05\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6855787a5160b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Fianna Fail&#8217;s Tony McCormack says it&#8217;s needed to keep commuters closer to home.\n        <\/p>\n<p>An Offaly TD says more commuters will be able to stay closer to home following a new IDA Ireland investment in the Midlands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to Fianna Fail TD Tony McCormack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>26 hectares of land are being secured for a new enterprise and business park in Tullamore in partnership with the local authority.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also expected to create new jobs as the current business parks are at full capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Fianna Fail Deputy Tony McCormack says it&#8217;s badly needed:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 12 December 2025 09:05 Fianna Fail&#8217;s Tony McCormack says it&#8217;s needed to keep commuters closer to home.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187680,"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-187679","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\/187679","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=187679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}