{"id":239022,"date":"2026-01-11T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239022\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T06:14:09","slug":"ireland-is-a-target-new-calls-for-hard-focus-on-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/239022\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ireland is a target\u2019 \u2014 new calls for hard focus on national security"},"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\">Business chiefs say \u2018hostile state actors\u2019 are trying to infiltrate Irish firmsFormer taoiseach Bertie Ahern believes US president Donald Trump will not follow through on Greenland threat\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SN Bertie 2.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)\">Former taoiseach Bertie Ahern<\/p>\n<p>Niamh Horan and Maeve Sheehan<\/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)\">A study published last month by the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) has urged the Government here to speedily publish a National Security Strategy.<\/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 report, co-produced by Deloitte Ireland, drew on interviews and discussions with public and private sector leaders that took place last September. In its interviews, business groups called on the Department of Justice to expedite high-level security clearances for staff applying for sensitive posts in critical infrastructure and services, because of \u201celevated\u201d attempts by foreign intelligence agencies to infiltrate their businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business chiefs say \u2018hostile state actors\u2019 are trying to infiltrate Irish firmsFormer taoiseach Bertie Ahern believes US president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[894,114,3025,969,895,3775,1556,61,60,6134,17075,43,6083,3589,3415,3315],"class_list":["post-239022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-bertie-ahern","tag-china","tag-denmark","tag-donald-trump","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-helen-mcentee","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-maeve-sheehan","tag-nato","tag-news","tag-niamh-horan","tag-russia","tag-sinn-fein","tag-triple-lock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239022","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=239022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}