{"id":472984,"date":"2026-05-29T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:51:12","slug":"fears-for-sligo-householders-over-looming-price-hike-from-electric-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472984\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears for Sligo householders over looming price hike from Electric Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serious concern has been raised for households across the North West as they face imminent electricity price hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Bills for Electric Ireland customers are set to increase from July 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Average electricity bills will go up 8 per cent and gas bills will rise by 7 point 7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>That works out at an annual increase of 138 euro for electricity and 116 euro for gas.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Mayor of the Sligo Borough and Sinn Fein Cllr Arthur Gibbons has once again called on the Government to introduce an energy price cap:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serious concern has been raised for households across the North West as they face imminent electricity price hikes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-472984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472984","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=472984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}