{"id":360123,"date":"2026-03-23T00:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360123\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T00:42:12","slug":"builders-face-costs-bloodbath-as-critical-pipe-suppliers-prepare-to-raise-their-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360123\/","title":{"rendered":"Builders face costs \u2018bloodbath\u2019 as critical pipe suppliers prepare to raise their prices"},"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\">\u2018If the Iran war goes on, then so will the hikes,\u2019 say industry insiders, adding \u2018construction will grind to a halt\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manufacturers and suppliers of crucial building materials to the Irish building sector are preparing large and immediate price hikes. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0b388289-e7ee-47f7-b142-dabe5367f5cb.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)\">Manufacturers and suppliers of crucial building materials to the Irish building sector are preparing large and immediate price hikes. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Fearghal O&#8217;Connor and Sean Pollock<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 06:30<\/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 housing and construction sector is facing \u201ca bloodbath\u201d of cost increases as the price of oil continues to rise and Donald Trump and Benajmin Netanyahu\u2019s war in Iran continues to escalate.<\/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)\">Manufacturers and suppliers of crucial building materials to the Irish building sector are preparing large and immediate price hikes, they have told the Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018If the Iran war goes on, then so will the hikes,\u2019 say industry insiders, adding \u2018construction will grind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10100,72,969,6353,61,11829,60,5913],"class_list":["post-360123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-fearghal-oconnor","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-sean-pollock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360123","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=360123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}