{"id":462797,"date":"2026-05-23T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462797\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:52:10","slug":"laois-td-demands-deer-be-tested-for-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462797\/","title":{"rendered":"Laois TD Demands Deer Be Tested For TB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 22 May 2026 16:12\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/62ece9c9bdf56.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Deputy Willie Aird feels the measure is vital.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Laois TD is questioning why deer are not being tested for Tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p>At a previous meeting, the Department of Agriculture awarded \u20ac3.6 million to the Farm Relief Services Co-Op to implement a long-term deer population management strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland is experiencing significant deer overpopulation in counties such as Donegal, Wicklow, and Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Aird says testing deer for TB is vitally important:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 22 May 2026 16:12 Deputy Willie Aird feels the measure is vital. A Laois TD is questioning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3279,319,103,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-462797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462797","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=462797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}