{"id":255760,"date":"2026-01-21T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255760\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:30:09","slug":"minister-challenges-big-brave-men-who-shout-at-me-on-social-media-as-he-defends-irelands-record-on-foreign-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255760\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister challenges \u2018big brave men who shout at me on social media\u2019 as he defends Ireland\u2019s record on foreign aid"},"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\">Minister Neale Richmond was speaking at the launch of Oxfam Ireland&#8217;s Global Education Movement\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Minister Neale Richmond T.D., Br\u00edd McGrath, Oxfam Ireland Director of Public Affairs and Jim Clarken, Oxfam Ireland Chief Executive at the launch of the charity's Global Education Movement at the National Opera House.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cba94c0b-a0a5-41a2-b44f-f78eb65546d0.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)\">Minister Neale Richmond T.D., Br\u00edd McGrath, Oxfam Ireland Director of Public Affairs and Jim Clarken, Oxfam Ireland Chief Executive at the launch of the charity&#8217;s Global Education Movement at the National Opera House.<\/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 Minister of State has defended Ireland\u2019s track record on foreign aid, challenging people who are critical of him on social media to \u201cput their money where their mouth is\u201d. <\/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)\">Neale Richmond T.D., the Minister of State with responsibility for International Development and the Diaspora, was speaking at the National Opera House in Wexford for the launch of Oxfam Ireland\u2019s Global Education Movement (GEM) where he challenged the \u201cbig brave man who shouts at me on social media\u201d over the amount of aid Ireland sends abroad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister Neale Richmond was speaking at the launch of Oxfam Ireland&#8217;s Global Education Movement Minister Neale Richmond T.D.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3502,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-255760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cillian-boggan","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255760","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=255760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}