{"id":661886,"date":"2026-10-22T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661886\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:32:11","slug":"1500-yearly-deaths-in-ireland-due-to-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661886\/","title":{"rendered":"1,500 yearly deaths in Ireland due to pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Air pollution is linked to around 1,500 premature deaths in Ireland every year, despite an overall improvement in air quality.<\/p>\n<p>A new EPA report shows Ireland met EU pollution limits last year, with harmful emissions declining over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>However, pollution from household fires and traffic remains a health concern.<\/p>\n<p>The EPA says further action is needed to meet stricter European air quality limits by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air pollution is linked to around 1,500 premature deaths in Ireland every year, despite an overall improvement in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-661886","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\/661886","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=661886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}