{"id":326775,"date":"2026-03-03T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:26:07","slug":"ireland-south-mep-calls-for-increased-funding-for-kerry-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326775\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland South MEP calls for increased funding for Kerry Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ireland South MEP has called for increased funding for Kerry Aiport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/cynthia-ni-mhurchu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa<\/a>, who\u2019s on the EU\u2019s Transport Committee, described the airport as vital to the regions economic prospects.<\/p>\n<p>A recent Airports Council International (ACI) report warned that European airports face a \u20ac360 billion infrastructure investment gap.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, \u20ac45 million was announced between several regional airports including <a href=\"https:\/\/kerryairport.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Fianna F\u00e1il MEP said while supports under the Regional Airports Programme (RAP) are welcome she believes it can be restrictive.<\/p>\n<p>She is urging the Transport Minister to increase funding to support critical infrastructure and growth at Kerry Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ireland South MEP has called for increased funding for Kerry Aiport. Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa, who\u2019s on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,151271,43],"class_list":["post-326775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-south-mep","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326775","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=326775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}