{"id":601383,"date":"2026-08-22T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601383\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:24:11","slug":"tanaiste-welcomes-positive-upgrade-to-national-economic-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/601383\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00e1naiste welcomes positive upgrade to national economic outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country&#8217;s economic outlook has grown more upbeat.<br \/>Moody&#8217;s has upgraded Ireland&#8217;s credit rating to Aa2.<br \/>The T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris has welcomed the upgrade of Ireland\u2019s long-term sovereign credit rating by Moody\u2019s to Aa2 from Aa3, with a positive outlook.<br \/>The upgrade reflects its assessment the nation&#8217;s strong economy will continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Harris says it means the country now enjoys a rating of at least \u2018AA\u2019 from all major credit rating agencies.<br \/>He says this upgrade demonstrates the fundamental resilience and strength of the Irish economy.<br \/>He says as they begin preparations for Budget 2027 they will continue to build on the progress they have made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The country&#8217;s economic outlook has grown more upbeat.Moody&#8217;s has upgraded Ireland&#8217;s credit rating to Aa2.The T\u00e1naiste Simon Harris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-601383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601383","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=601383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}