{"id":527393,"date":"2026-07-01T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527393\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:08:10","slug":"ireland-takes-presidency-of-european-council-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527393\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Takes Presidency Of European Council Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Wednesday, 1 July 2026 10:23\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/670945c1de167.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            It is a rotating six month term.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Ireland takes over the Presidency of the European Council this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rotating six month term will see hundreds of meetings of European Ministers and leaders here throughout the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has set out three main policy platforms for the Presidency &#8211; competitiveness, values and security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Midlands MEP Ciaran Mullooly says the government has a big opportunity to secure support for people across a broad range of sectors:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 1 July 2026 10:23 It is a rotating six month term. Ireland takes over the Presidency of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,59],"class_list":["post-527393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527393","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=527393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}