{"id":472615,"date":"2026-03-13T02:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472615\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T02:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:46:28","slug":"john-mulligan-so-much-for-the-middle-east-of-renewables-energy-security-in-ireland-is-still-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472615\/","title":{"rendered":"John Mulligan: So much for the \u2018Middle East\u2019 of renewables, energy security in Ireland is still a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">At global unrest increases, our inability to stick to a plan is costing us\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Not one new offshore windfarm has been built since the 2030 target was unveiled by former environment minister Eamon Ryan in 2020. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IB offshore.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)\">Not one new offshore windfarm has been built since the 2030 target was unveiled by former environment minister Eamon Ryan in 2020. 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)\">For the second time in less than five years, Ireland\u2019s Achilles\u2019 heel has been starkly exposed.<\/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 country\u2019s heavy reliance on energy imports, combined with the glacial deployment of offshore windfarms and a ban on new oil and gas exploration, has left the country at the mercy of a fracturing geopolitical and economic system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At global unrest increases, our inability to stick to a plan is costing us Not one new offshore&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[168756,168755,1397,1710,1711,48375,49766,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-472615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-darragh-obrien","9":"tag-eamon-ryan","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-fianna-fail","12":"tag-fine-gael","13":"tag-green-party","14":"tag-john-mulligan","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}