{"id":44269,"date":"2025-09-26T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44269\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:39:09","slug":"meat-prices-look-set-to-rise-and-rise-what-does-this-mean-for-irish-mealtimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44269\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat prices look set to rise and rise: what does this mean for Irish mealtimes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nOnce a staple of our mealtimes, meat is becoming more of a luxury item. We hear from families on how they are managing the price rises, and look at the potential implications for our dinner tables \u2013 and our health\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Seeing red: The price of a kilo of sirloin has gone up almost a fiver since the start of the year\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IR price rises.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)\">Seeing red: The price of a kilo of sirloin has gone up almost a fiver since the start of the year<\/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)\">Every time Sylvia Cronin pays for her weekly shop, she notices the price has risen yet again. Just about everything is going up, but meat stands out. On the occasions that she chooses a more premium cut of beef, she is struck by how much the price has skyrocketed.<\/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)\">The Cork mother-of-three is not imagining things. According to the Central Statistics Office, the price of sirloin \u2013 to take the example of one of the most popular cuts of beef \u2013 went from \u20ac17.19 per kilo in January of this year to \u20ac22.17 for the same weight in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once a staple of our mealtimes, meat is becoming more of a luxury item. We hear from families&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,280,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-44269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-john-meagher","12":"tag-review-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44269","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=44269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}