{"id":24618,"date":"2025-09-16T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24618\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:16:12","slug":"insurance-industry-is-holding-ireland-to-ransom-supermacs-boss-pat-mcdonagh-calls-for-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/24618\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Insurance industry is holding Ireland to ransom\u2019 \u2013 Supermac\u2019s boss Pat McDonagh calls for inquiry"},"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\">Businessman says premiums are \u2018spiralling again\u2019 and leading to closures\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pat McDonagh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/111460973.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)\">Pat McDonagh<\/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)\">Supermac\u2019s boss Pat McDonagh has accused the insurance industry of \u201cholding the country to ransom\u201d as he called for a statutory inquiry into rising costs.<\/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 Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation is due to meet tomorrow to examine public and employers\u2019 liability insurance and motor premiums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businessman says premiums are \u2018spiralling again\u2019 and leading to closures Pat McDonagh Supermac\u2019s boss Pat McDonagh has accused&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15008,72,20927,61,5167,60,21023],"class_list":{"0":"post-24618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-amy-molloy","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-central-bank-of-ireland","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-insurance","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-supermacs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618","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=24618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}