{"id":475458,"date":"2026-05-31T01:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475458\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T01:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:10:17","slug":"fears-clare-unemployment-will-rise-due-to-cost-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/475458\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears Clare Unemployment Will Rise Due To Cost Pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are fears unemployment levels will rise due to the increased cost pressures on small businesses in Clare.<\/p>\n<p>The latest SME business sentiment survey from Chartered Accoutants Ireland and GRID Finance has found that 84% of SMEs are reporting an increase in business costs.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the survey reveals that 71% of small and medium enterprises are less optimistic about the economic environment than they were six months ago, up from 51% last October.<\/p>\n<p>ISME council member and managing director of Aillwee Burren Experience, Nuala Mulqueeney, believes jobs will be lost if businesses continue to feel the squeeze.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full interview here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are fears unemployment levels will rise due to the increased cost pressures on small businesses in Clare.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-475458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475458","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=475458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}