{"id":527220,"date":"2026-07-01T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527220\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T07:43:08","slug":"carlow-and-kilkenny-mark-ireland-taking-over-the-presidency-of-the-european-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527220\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlow and Kilkenny mark Ireland taking over the Presidency of the European Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As\u00a0Ireland takes over the Presidency of the European Council today, our local authorities look set to mark the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of meetings of European Ministers and leaders are expected while our country takes the reins of the rotating six-month offering which was last on our island in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has set out three main policy platforms of competitiveness, values and security for the term \u2013 he hosts\u00a0the Council President Antonio Costa in Dublin later before the official launch of the Presidency \u2013 which will take place at Dublin Castle.<\/p>\n<p>Carlow Kilkenny Deputy Peter \u2018Chap\u2019 Cleere\u2019s among those attending;<\/p>\n<p>Some protests are planned for the area by groups who are wary of the increasing defence co-operation in Europe and what it means for Irish neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, we told of survey results announced by the European Parliament which indicated most people here would vote again to keep Ireland in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Locally, Kilkenny County Council will hold a flag raising ceremony this morning with Cathaoirleach Joe Malone leading proceedings at County Hall.<\/p>\n<p>While counterparts in <a href=\"https:\/\/carlowchamber.com\/carlow-partners-with-luxembourg-for-the-irish-presidency-of-the-eu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlow have teamed with Luxembourg<\/a> for the duration to further strengthen ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As\u00a0Ireland takes over the Presidency of the European Council today, our local authorities look set to mark the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16665,96282,61,60,12969,43,1554],"class_list":["post-527220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-carlow","tag-european-council","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny","tag-news","tag-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527220","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=527220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}