{"id":396304,"date":"2026-04-13T13:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396304\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:53:09","slug":"kilkenny-businessman-hits-out-at-e505m-support-package-the-government-has-stuck-their-two-fingers-up-at-all-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/396304\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny businessman hits out at \u20ac505m support package \u2013 \u2018The Government has stuck their two fingers up at all of Ireland\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Philip Ireland of Philip Ireland Tyres Ltd in Kilkenny. Photo credit: Philip Ireland Tyres\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b89f9201-64f2-41ea-b638-79fd773e896a.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)\">Philip Ireland of Philip Ireland Tyres Ltd in Kilkenny. Photo credit: Philip Ireland Tyres<\/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)\">A businessman from Kilkenny City said that the citizens of Ireland have been \u201cstabbed in the back\u201d by the Government with their new support package.<\/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)\">As part of a \u20ac505m package, the Government announced it will cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by 10 cents from midnight on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip Ireland of Philip Ireland Tyres Ltd in Kilkenny. Photo credit: Philip Ireland Tyres A businessman from Kilkenny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7499,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-396304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aisling-bolton-dowling","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396304","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=396304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}