{"id":335546,"date":"2026-03-08T15:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335546\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:33:09","slug":"id-rather-be-sitting-here-with-my-glass-of-wine-than-back-in-ireland-in-that-rain-the-irish-ex-pats-who-feel-safe-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/335546\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I\u2019d rather be sitting here with my glass of wine than back in Ireland in that rain&#8217;: the Irish ex-pats who feel safe in Dubai"},"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\">Even as rockets rain down, long-term Irish in the UAE say they feel protected\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman jogs along a main street in downtown Dubai yesterday and, inset, Patricia Frawley and Eithne Treanor are two Irish women now resident in Dubai\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/fb3684b6-d72a-4e70-96a7-2a7a6c2b5db3.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)\">A woman jogs along a main street in downtown Dubai yesterday and, inset, Patricia Frawley and Eithne Treanor are two Irish women now resident in Dubai<\/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)\">Thousands of people may be scrambling to get out of the Middle East, but for a small and tight-knit community of well-\u00adestablished Irish business expats in Dubai, it is a different story.<\/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)\">Over the past two decades, they have made good lives for themselves, and missiles or not, they are going nowhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as rockets rain down, long-term Irish in the UAE say they feel protected A woman jogs along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[969,200,246,6353,61,11829,60,3410,82,812],"class_list":["post-335546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-donald-trump","tag-dubai","tag-environment","tag-fearghal-oconnor","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335546","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=335546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}