{"id":294266,"date":"2026-02-12T13:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294266\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:40:15","slug":"tds-and-senators-sink-guinness-pints-as-part-of-e60k-leinster-house-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294266\/","title":{"rendered":"TDs and senators sink Guinness pints as part of \u20ac60k Leinster House tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Bar sales in Leinster House increased by 34% to nearly \u20ac445,000 last year, with current or former TDs and senators knocking back shots of tequila and sambuca, along with \u20ac27 measures of premium whiskey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Politicians racked up almost \u20ac60,000 on their bar tabs during 2025 in the parliament\u2019s two pubs: the Visitors\u2019 Bar and the Members\u2019 Bar, which is exclusively for current and former Oireachtas members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bar sales in Leinster House increased by 34% to nearly \u20ac445,000 last year, with current or former TDs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11313,72,61,60],"class_list":["post-294266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alcohol","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294266","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=294266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}