{"id":313114,"date":"2026-02-23T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313114\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:21:07","slug":"ireland-shells-out-on-500m-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/313114\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland shells out on 500m\u00a0arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is racing to protect the country\u2019s maritime security ahead of Ireland hosting the presidency of the Council of the European Union this summer.\u00a0Defence Minister Helen McEntee is bringing forward new legislation as a matter of urgency to bolster the ability of the Defence Forces to police national waters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Do we need to spend more on our Defence?\u00a0\u00a0Joining Claire to discuss further was Cathal Berry, Former Independent TD and Army ranger and Brid Smith, Former People Before Profit TD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government is racing to protect the country\u2019s maritime security ahead of Ireland hosting the presidency of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-313114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313114","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=313114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}