{"id":474426,"date":"2026-05-30T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474426\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:22:11","slug":"ireland-long-way-behind-eu-countries-in-reducing-road-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474426\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland &#8216;long way&#8217; behind EU countries in reducing road deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-bold text-2xl text-pretty dark:text-light\">\n                Ireland is a long way behind Denmark, Norway and Sweden in terms of reducing road deaths, according to MEP Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ireland is a long way behind Denmark, Norway and Sweden in terms of reducing road deaths, according to MEP Cynthia N\u00ed Mhurch\u00fa.<br \/>She was speaking after engaging with the European Transport Safety Council to explore what strategies other EU Countries are employing to help reduce road deaths in their jurisdictions.<\/p>\n<p>She says one body in Ireland needs to be given responsibility for road death figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland is a long way behind Denmark, Norway and Sweden in terms of reducing road deaths, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-474426","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\/474426","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=474426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}