{"id":388252,"date":"2026-04-08T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388252\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:04:07","slug":"front-load-cap-payments-in-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/388252\/","title":{"rendered":"Front load CAP payments in crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MEP for this region, Ciaran Mullooly has called for an immediate emergency EU response to spiralling fuel and home-heating costs including the authorisation of\u00a0the highest possible advance CAP payments, as nationwide protests highlight the growing pressure on households, farmers, hauliers and small businesses across Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent\u00a0 Ireland Midlands-North-West MEP says the European Union and Member States already have tools available that must now be fully deployed, warning that people cannot wait for long-term solutions while costs continue to surge.<\/p>\n<p>He believes urgent State aid flexibility must now be prioritised to support those most exposed and has also called for a new EU-level emergency funding response.<\/p>\n<p>MEP Mullooly told Midwest News Editor Teresa O\u2019Malley that\u00a0the crisis is here so the response must be here too\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cmcap.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cmcap.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEP for this region, Ciaran Mullooly has called for an immediate emergency EU response to spiralling fuel and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-388252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388252","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=388252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}