{"id":527752,"date":"2026-07-01T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527752\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:56:09","slug":"kilkenny-marks-start-of-irelands-eu-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/527752\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkenny marks start of Ireland&#8217;s EU Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cathaoirleach of Kilkenny County Council, Joe Malone, marked the start of <a href=\"https:\/\/kclr96fm.com\/carlow-and-kilkenny-mark-ireland-taking-over-the-presidency-of-the-european-council\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland\u2019s six-month EU Presidency<\/a> with a flag-raising ceremony outside County Hall today.<\/p>\n<p>The Cathaoirleach was joined by the Leas-Cathaoirleach Deirdre Cullen, Deputy Mayor John Coonan and Castlecomer MD Chairman Pat Fitzpatrick, the councillors raised the tricolour, EU flag and Kilkenny flag before the National Anthem was played.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking as Ireland begins its six-month EU Presidency, Cllr. Malone said our membership has transformed the country since 1973 through investment, job creation and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>He also believes the presidency will strengthen Ireland\u2019s international relationships, attract further economic opportunities and put the country in the global spotlight over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr. Malone spoke to KCLR News Martin Quilty after the event.<\/p>\n<p>These local people spoke to KCLR News about their thoughts on Ireland EU Presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cathaoirleach of Kilkenny County Council, Joe Malone, marked the start of Ireland\u2019s six-month EU Presidency with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[224633,74289,224634,61,60,72902,43],"class_list":["post-527752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cllr-joe-malone","tag-eu-presidency","tag-flag-raising","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kilkenny-county-council","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527752","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=527752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}