{"id":424915,"date":"2026-04-30T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424915\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:28:08","slug":"funding-announced-for-iwak-midwest-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424915\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding announced for IWAK &#8211; Midwest Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Close to 3 million euro has been announced this morning for Ireland West Airport Knock to boost safety and security measures and reduce carbon emissions at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister for Transport , Darragh O\u2019Brien has announced almost \u00a08 million euro to regional airports over the next four years.<br \/>7.9 million euro will be divided between Shannon, Ireland West Airport Knock, Kerry and Donegal airports.<\/p>\n<p>2.83 million will go towards projects at Ireland West Airport Knock.<br \/>Shannon will receive 1.9 million.<br \/>Minister\u00a0 O\u2019Brien says the funding supports \u201cconnectivity and balanced regional development, while seeking to maximise the use of existing capacity\u201d.<br \/>Minister Dara Calleary spoke to Midwest News Editor Teresa O\u2019Malley about\u00a0 the welcome funding for Ireland West Airport Knock\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9dara.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9dara.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Close to 3 million euro has been announced this morning for Ireland West Airport Knock to boost safety&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-424915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424915","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=424915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}