{"id":369344,"date":"2026-03-28T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369344\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:33:09","slug":"john-downing-10-things-ireland-has-learnt-from-a-murderous-month-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/369344\/","title":{"rendered":"John Downing: 10 things Ireland has learnt from a murderous month in the Middle East"},"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\">The world has become an increasingly dangerous place \u2013 and our country needs to wake up\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A woman looks on as residents and emergency workers sift through rubble of a residential building that was hit in an airstrike in the early hours of March 27 in Tehran, Iran. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9b61accc-f525-47f7-9bed-e6c336b17521.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 looks on as residents and emergency workers sift through rubble of a residential building that was hit in an airstrike in the early hours of March 27 in Tehran, Iran. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">Precisely a month ago on Saturday, February 28, we woke up to the dreaded news that the US and Israel were bombarding Iran. There followed a calendar month of grim lessons that continue.<\/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)\">Here\u2019s a flavour of what Irish people have gleaned from the Donald and Bibi\u2019s Iranian murderous folly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world has become an increasingly dangerous place \u2013 and our country needs to wake up A woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10100,969,61,11829,60,3410,43,812],"class_list":["post-369344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369344","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=369344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}