{"id":326910,"date":"2026-03-03T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326910\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:16:10","slug":"former-eu-commissioner-phil-hogan-nominated-by-government-as-irelands-candidate-for-senior-un-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326910\/","title":{"rendered":"Former EU Commissioner Phil Hogan nominated by Government as Ireland\u2019s candidate for senior UN job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Phil Hogan has expressed interest becoming director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/721ef294-dfdb-45c4-a69a-ff31685fce2a.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)\">Phil Hogan has expressed interest becoming director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Mary Regan and Senan Molony<\/p>\n<p>Today at 13:00<\/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)\">Former EU Commissioner, Phil Hogan, has been nominated as Ireland\u2019s candidate to be the next Director-General of the UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).<\/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)\">The Cabinet has agreed to put him name forward for the role and it&#8217;s expected he will get the backing of other EU countries for the election of the position, which takes place in summer 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phil Hogan has expressed interest becoming director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-326910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326910","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=326910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}