{"id":386236,"date":"2026-04-07T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386236\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:31:12","slug":"what-28-days-inside-bord-bia-taught-us-and-why-it-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/386236\/","title":{"rendered":"What 28 days inside Bord Bia taught us \u2014 and why it worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'We acted because we believed absolutely, emphatically\u00a0and unapologetically that we were right'. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/e2de2a0c-5ac0-42fb-99c0-b2924cecaa51.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)\">&#8216;We acted because we believed absolutely, emphatically\u00a0and unapologetically that we were right&#8217;. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">We walked out the front door of Bord Bia over a month ago after a 28-day sit-in \u2013 possibly the longest occupation of a Government building in the history of the State.<\/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 then, the world has moved on at pace. The escalation of war in the Middle East and its impact on oil prices has triggered fresh concerns around energy, fertiliser costs and the very real prospect of another spike in inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;We acted because we believed absolutely, emphatically\u00a0and unapologetically that we were right&#8217;. Photo: Steve Humphreys We walked out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-386236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386236","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=386236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}