{"id":567129,"date":"2026-07-25T05:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/567129\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:46:08","slug":"aughinish-alumina-report-leaves-irelands-reputation-in-ruins-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/567129\/","title":{"rendered":"Aughinish Alumina report leaves Ireland\u2019s reputation in ruins \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Minister of State and Limerick TD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/niall-collins\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/niall-collins\/\">Niall Collins<\/a> suggested the  Government report found no proof either way of aluminium exports being used for Russian arms manufacture, so carry on. Yet Sweden and Finland have said the Russian smelter\u2019s biggest customer is Rusal, which owns Aughinish Alumina and who supplies the Russian military. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">How predictable our inquiry would leave us room for denial. Our reputation as a caring nation has been trashed. It seems \u201cjobs before lives\u201d is our new motto. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">ENDA SCANLON, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ennis, <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Clare. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 Minister of State and Limerick TD Niall Collins suggested the Government report found no proof either&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[163884,61,60,39639,1396,43,64474,204681,3589],"class_list":["post-567129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-aughinish-alumina","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-letter-of-the-day","tag-limerick","tag-news","tag-niall-collins","tag-rusal","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567129","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=567129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}