{"id":63301,"date":"2025-10-06T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63301\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:04:15","slug":"any-other-business-we-still-dont-have-a-science-museum-but-we-do-have-a-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/63301\/","title":{"rendered":"Any Other Business: We still don\u2019t have a science museum \u2013 but we do have a bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ali Hewson was one of the museum's initial sponsors. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/803a1b09-ae6a-4a01-8377-7314d9f49298.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ali Hewson was one of the museum&#8217;s initial sponsors. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">How did we get from a position in 2003 \u2013 where a private developer was going to pay for a science centre in Dublin, with no cost to the taxpayer \u2013 to the Office of Public Works being legally obliged to build one on behalf of a charity at a cost of at least \u20ac70m?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The saga, which is examined by the Comptroller &amp; Auditor General (C&amp;AG) in its latest report, puts the bike shed debacle in the ha\u2019penny place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ali Hewson was one of the museum&#8217;s initial sponsors. Photo: Getty How did we get from a position&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,5243,43535,27252,6085,7539],"class_list":["post-63301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-john-burns","tag-office-of-public-works-opw","tag-primark","tag-rte","tag-the-late-late-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63301","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=63301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}