{"id":297478,"date":"2026-02-14T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297478\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:04:10","slug":"id-be-lying-if-i-said-i-didnt-feel-conflicted-irish-parents-on-the-true-costs-and-savings-of-taking-kids-out-of-school-for-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297478\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019d be lying if I said I didn\u2019t feel conflicted&#8217; &#8211; Irish parents on the true costs and savings of taking kids out of school for holidays"},"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\">A recent survey revealed 54pc of Irish parents would do it to save on holiday prices. An annual debate is kicking off again&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrea Cosgrave and family swimming in the Blue lagoon in Iceland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/66302925-d6c9-4096-9006-cb2db1e853d6.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)\">Andrea Cosgrave and family swimming in the Blue lagoon in Iceland<\/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)\">Is it acceptable for parents to take their kids out of school for holidays?<\/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)\">\u201cI\u2019d be lying if I said I didn\u2019t feel conflicted, because of course school matters,\u201d says Tanya McHale-Roe, a mum of five from Co Mayo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recent survey revealed 54pc of Irish parents would do it to save on holiday prices. An annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898,128197,137286],"class_list":["post-297478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-shp","tag-signature-enjoy-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297478","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=297478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}