{"id":272611,"date":"2026-01-30T21:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:31:13","slug":"ireland-should-expect-drone-attacks-during-upcoming-eu-presidency-mep-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/272611\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland should expect drone attacks during upcoming EU presidency, MEP warns:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fianna F\u00e1il MEP Barry Andrews. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/df5ba7f7-5415-48cf-b65c-df19e0a53e39.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)\">Fianna F\u00e1il MEP Barry Andrews. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">An MEP has warned that Ireland should expect hybrid drone attacks during the upcoming EU presidency and that the State will have to outsource security measures to other countries.<\/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)\">Fianna F\u00e1il politician Barry Andrews has also raised concerns about Ireland\u2019s overall defence capabilities and called for greater funding of the defence budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fianna F\u00e1il MEP Barry Andrews. Photo: Getty An MEP has warned that Ireland should expect hybrid drone attacks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3025,2244,895,61,60,43,31620,3589,3315,2040,16586],"class_list":["post-272611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-denmark","tag-eu","tag-fianna-fail","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-robin-schiller","tag-russia","tag-triple-lock","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272611","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=272611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}