{"id":587887,"date":"2026-08-09T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587887\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:18:08","slug":"clares-two-closest-university-towns-among-most-expensive-for-students-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587887\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare&#8217;s Two Closest University Towns Among Most Expensive For Students In Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clare\u2019s closest University towns have ranked as some of the most expensive in the country for students.<\/p>\n<p>A new report from switcher.ie found rent in Limerick and Galway were the fifth and sixth highest in the country respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Both cities saw a 5% increase in the annual costs of everyday expenses, with students living in Limerick paying \u20ac16,520 a year, while those in Galway faced annual costs of \u20ac16,064.<\/p>\n<p>TUS Midwest Student President, Emma Hogan, says Clare students are opting out of going college due to being unable to afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Listen here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clare\u2019s closest University towns have ranked as some of the most expensive in the country for students. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-587887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587887","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=587887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}