{"id":634257,"date":"2026-09-24T06:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/634257\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:48:09","slug":"where-does-ireland-sit-at-the-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/634257\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does Ireland sit at the UN General Assembly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost every country in the world has a seat at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n<p>But the seating plan is not dictated by a nation\u2019s wealth, size or perceived power &#8211; it\u2019s a lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, the Secretary General draws one country\u2019s name out of a hat and they get the first seat right up the front. All of the other member states then follow, in English alphabetical order.<\/p>\n<p>Later today, Taoiseach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/politics\/2026\/0924\/1592741-taoiseach-un\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miche\u00e1l Martin will make a national address as part of the UNGA general debate<\/a>. It is scheduled for around 8pm New York time (1am in Ireland).<\/p>\n<p>While it can be interesting to know who Ireland shares a table with &#8211; it\u2019s Iraq this year &#8211; the main question is what nations choose to do with their seat.<\/p>\n<p>We will find out what the Taoiseach does with his tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost every country in the world has a seat at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-634257","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\/634257","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=634257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}