{"id":492222,"date":"2026-06-10T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492222\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:48:10","slug":"mayo-named-best-county-to-raise-a-family-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492222\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo Named Best County to Raise a Family in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mayo is the best county in Ireland for raising a family, according to a recent survey.<\/p>\n<p>Key criteria like schools, crime rates, and access to green spaces were included in the Quote Devil study.<\/p>\n<p>With its \u201cappealing lifestyle\u201d and reasonably priced housing, Mayo was at the top of the list.<\/p>\n<p>Donegal and Kerry came in second and third, respectively, and Sligo, Clare, Cork, and Dublin were in the top ten.<\/p>\n<p>Kildare, on the opposite end of the spectrum, is the hardest region to raise a family because of its expensive housing, scarcity of green areas, and elevated crime rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayo is the best county in Ireland for raising a family, according to a recent survey. Key criteria&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-492222","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\/492222","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=492222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}