{"id":427899,"date":"2026-05-02T01:18:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427899\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:18:20","slug":"clare-economist-says-tough-winter-to-be-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/427899\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Economist Says &#8220;Tough Winter To Be Expected&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading Clare Economist says a tough Winter is to be expected for households in light of soaring oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>A barrel of Brent Crude Oil which is extracted from the North Sea is today trading at $111, an increase of over 59% since the beginning of the Iran War.<\/p>\n<p>The Government has already ruled out the possibility of introducing an emergency budget and has signalled its focus is on cost of living measures in Budget 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Ennis-based economist and Assistant Professor of Social Policy at UCD Miche\u00e1l Collins says it\u2019s a situation we have little control over.<\/p>\n<p>Listen here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A leading Clare Economist says a tough Winter is to be expected for households in light of soaring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-427899","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\/427899","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=427899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}