{"id":349926,"date":"2026-03-17T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349926\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:21:08","slug":"new-frontier-to-irish-us-relationship-as-ireland-joins-space-accords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/349926\/","title":{"rendered":"New frontier to Irish-US relationship as Ireland joins space accords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland will join the Artemis Accords, the Taoiseach has announced.<\/p>\n<p>Micheal Martin said Ireland would join the Accords, which are a set of principles for the civil exploration and use of outer space established by Nasa in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Martin said Ireland-US collaboration is \u201cever evolving and quite literally pushing into new frontiers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cBilateral engagement on the peaceful use of outer space is one such area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US has shown leadership in developing the Artemis Accords.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased that Ireland has decided to join the Accords, and we look forward to exploring all the opportunities that this unlocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are 61 other signatories to the Accords which set out \u201cprinciples for cooperation in the civil exploration and use of the moon, Mars, comets and asteroids for peaceful purposes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland will join the Artemis Accords, the Taoiseach has announced. Micheal Martin said Ireland would join the Accords,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31489,61,60,1843,43,247,90],"class_list":["post-349926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-artemis-accords","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-space","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349926","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=349926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}