{"id":630042,"date":"2026-09-20T00:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630042\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:38:10","slug":"business-post-of-course-metrolink-will-be-expensive-so-ireland-needs-to-get-on-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630042\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Post: Of course MetroLink will be expensive, so Ireland needs to get on with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Post subscribers can read:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Why MetroLink\u2019s potential \u20ac17.5 billion price tag should prompt scrutiny rather than another postponement<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 How decades of delay have left Dublin without an airport rail connection or proper underground mass-transit system<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Why the argument over MetroLink is ultimately about the infrastructure Ireland will need in 2050<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business Post subscribers can read: \u2022 Why MetroLink\u2019s potential \u20ac17.5 billion price tag should prompt scrutiny rather than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-630042","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\/630042","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=630042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}