{"id":575809,"date":"2026-07-30T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575809\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:29:12","slug":"proposed-midlands-food-hub-unsuccessful-in-securing-enterprise-ireland-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575809\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Midlands Food Hub Unsuccessful In Securing Enterprise Ireland Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Thursday, 30 July 2026 17:16\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6b77efc0e282cab21.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    The proposed development for the food hub in Mullingar. Photo credit:Facebook\/Meag Mullingar<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Enterprise Ireland say a proposed food hub in Mullingar is not one they can support through the Smart Regions Fund.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Enterprise Ireland will not be providing funding to a proposed food hub project for the Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Ward, manager of the Mullingar Employment Action Group says it&#8217;s disappointing they can not secure support through the Smart Regions Fund.<\/p>\n<p>He says the proposed state-of-the-art facility in the town would have created local jobs and develop food and drink enterprises in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ward says they&#8217;re not giving up just yet:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, 30 July 2026 17:16 The proposed development for the food hub in Mullingar. Photo credit:Facebook\/Meag Mullingar Enterprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575810,"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-575809","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\/575809","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=575809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}