{"id":406953,"date":"2026-04-19T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406953\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:06:09","slug":"electricity-prices-may-rise-by-up-to-9pc-minister-warns-as-taoiseach-plays-down-predictions-of-jet-fuel-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/406953\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity prices may rise by \u2018up to 9pc\u2019, minister warns as Taoiseach plays down predictions of jet fuel shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>latest\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/032d48b4-93b1-418f-85c1-2766f81e4cc6.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)\">Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien<\/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)\">Climate and Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien has confirmed that energy price increases will be seen in the coming months.<\/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)\">Speaking on the This Week show on RT\u00c9 Radio 1, Mr O\u2019Brien said; &#8220;We have to prepare ourselves for all eventualities\u201d when asked if households can expect to pay significantly more for energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"latest\u00a0|\u00a0 Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien Climate and Transport Minister Darragh O\u2019Brien has confirmed that energy price increases will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-406953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406953","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=406953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}