{"id":435108,"date":"2026-05-06T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435108\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:45:08","slug":"ireland-punching-above-its-weight-says-european-affairs-minister-at-kilkenny-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435108\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland punching above its weight says European Affairs Minister at Kilkenny gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its size Ireland is punching above its weight according to the European Affairs Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Byrne was guest speaker at an interactive workshop for Transition Year students hosted by Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kclr96fm.com\/students-from-across-leinster-gathering-in-kilkenny-to-debate-and-discuss-irelands-priorities-for-presidency-of-eu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Students from across Leinster gathered at the Newpark Hotel<\/a> to discuss Ireland\u2019s priorities ahead of its upcoming EU Presidency and debate key issues facing the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Byrne told KCLR News that Ireland is lauded across the European Union for coming from zero to hero;<\/p>\n<p>These students have been outlining their views;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite its size Ireland is punching above its weight according to the European Affairs Minister. Thomas Byrne was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16665,61,60,12969,10562,189874,189875,43],"class_list":["post-435108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-carlow","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-leinster","tag-minister-for-european-affairs","tag-newpark-hotel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435108","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=435108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}