{"id":505943,"date":"2026-06-18T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505943\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:13:09","slug":"lidl-ireland-opens-first-top-energy-rated-supermarket-of-its-kind-in-carlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/505943\/","title":{"rendered":"Lidl Ireland opens first top energy-rated supermarket of its kind in Carlow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lidl Ireland opens the first top energy-rated supermarket of its kind today and it\u2019s in Carlow.<\/p>\n<p>The new, state-of-the-art store on the Castlecomer Road in Graiguecullen boasts the highest possible Building Energy Rating (A0 BER).<\/p>\n<p>It follows a \u20ac10million investment with 25 new permanent jobs created.<\/p>\n<p>Carlow Mayor Paul Doogue says the excitement kicked off early;<\/p>\n<p>Minister of State at the Department of Health, Jennifer Murnane O\u2019Connor, was among those attending;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Minister-JMOC-Graiguecullen-Lidl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-324932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Minister-JMOC-Graiguecullen-Lidl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"668\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lidl Ireland opens the first top energy-rated supermarket of its kind today and it\u2019s in Carlow. The new,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16665,216271,61,60,16117,43],"class_list":["post-505943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-carlow","tag-graiguecullen","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lidl","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505943","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=505943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}