{"id":372060,"date":"2026-03-29T22:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:50:09","slug":"my-family-are-worried-but-im-not-leaving-as-i-couldnt-afford-to-be-a-teacher-in-ireland-irish-expats-caught-up-in-middle-east-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/372060\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My family are worried, but I\u2019m not leaving as I couldn\u2019t afford to be a teacher in Ireland\u2019 \u2013 Irish expats caught up in Middle East war"},"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\">Conflict has caused instability, but many Irish living in the region say they are happy to stay, while others have returned home\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From left, Joe Sheahan, Ben Currums and Keira Collins were all living in the Middle East when the conflict broke out\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1bbfb553-9cd2-488e-8c58-31816fa62158.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)\">From left, Joe Sheahan, Ben Currums and Keira Collins were all living in the Middle East when the conflict broke out<\/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)\">It is a month today since the US and Israel launched strikes on multiple sites and cities across Iran, and many Irish expats in the Middle East remain \u00addefiant in the face of instability.<\/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)\">Since Saturday, February 28, the Iranian people have been killed in their thousands while airspace, fuel, food and stock prices globally have felt the impact of the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conflict has caused instability, but many Irish living in the region say they are happy to stay, while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[200,61,11829,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-372060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-dubai","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372060","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=372060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}