{"id":427261,"date":"2026-05-01T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427261\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:56:08","slug":"taoiseach-says-talks-ongoing-to-turn-athlone-into-irelands-first-green-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427261\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach says talks ongoing to turn Athlone into Ireland&#8217;s first &#8216;green city&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Developer Sean Mulryan and Ballymore hope to complete the project by 2040.\n            <\/p>\n<p>The Taoiseach says talks are ongoing regarding Athlone becoming Ireland&#8217;s first Green City.<br \/>Developer Sean Mulryan and Ballymore hope to complete the project by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Following a presentation to Roscommon councillors earlier this year, Mulryan said the Government now needs to progress the plans.<br \/>Speaking in Athlone today, Taoiseach Micheal Martin says discussions are continuing but more work needs to be done:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developer Sean Mulryan and Ballymore hope to complete the project by 2040. The Taoiseach says talks are ongoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,15152],"class_list":["post-427261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-taoiseach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427261","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=427261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}